John A. Robertson
University of Texas School of Law
Professor Robertson holds the Vinson and Elkins Chair at the University of Texas School of Law at Austin. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, he has written widely on law and bioethics issues, including the book Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies. A Fellow of the Hastings Center, he has served on a Federal Task Force on Organ Transplantation, on the National Institutes of Health Panel on Fetal Tissue Transplantation, and on the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. The following statement was presented at the March 14, 1997, meeting of…