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Applying Pressure to the 14-Day Rule

June 15, 2017

by D. Joy Riley MD, MA (Ethics)

D. Joy Riley MD, MA (Ethics)

D. Joy Riley MD, MA (Ethics)

Dr. Riley is executive director of The Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture and serves on the ethics committee of a Nashville-area hospital. Board certified in internal medicine, her writing and lecture topics include medical ethics, organ transplantation ethics, stem cell research, genetics, end-of-life issues and assisted reproductive technologies. With Scott B. Rae, she co-authored Outside the Womb: Moral Guidance for Assisted Reproduction, and with C. Ben Mitchell, Christian Bioethics.