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Entries from blog.bioethics.net tagged with 'egg donation'
IVF Mom Who Lied Isn't The Problem....
Headlines last week about a Spanish mother who at age 69 died leaving behind two, two-year-old twins sparked controversy about the wisdom of providing IVF treatment to women of advanced maternal age. In the case of Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, she lied about her age (at the time... (read the rest)
Peeling the Egg...
Wesley J. Smith over at Secondhand Smoke is grousing that I took aim at his argument about banning egg donation of any kind, including paid donations of eggs for stem cell research. As he says in his blog post of August 4th, "my intent is to avoid exploitation of the... (read the rest)
The Egg Man
Wesley Smith writes on Second Hand Smoke that there ought to be an outright ban on the a woman's ability to sell her gametes all together--for fertility treatments, stem cell research, or any purpose at all. He makes this claim that paying women $3000 to $7000 per cycle was troublesome,... (read the rest)
Should I sell my eggs?
Via Art Caplan comes this pointer to a first-person piece by Jill Colvin in the New York Press about egg "donation." Here's a snip: While Julia's repeated donations were beyond anything that I could imagine, as a self-declared feminist, the idea of taking charge of my body was appealing. I... (read the rest)
Worth reading from the weekend
One piece about the genetic present, the other on the genetic future. First, in the NYT Magazine Peggy Orenstein explores the questions and concerns prompted by egg donation: It was weird to look at these pictures with Becky. I inevitably objectified the young women in them, evaluating their component parts;... (read the rest)
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