[trisham]

According to Dr. Diane Beeson of California State University, the global opposition to human egg-harvesting was accelerated by last year's revelations that Korea's Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk had coerced subordinates and exploited paid "donors" for more than 2,000 human eggs which were harvested, used, and destroyed in his unsuccessful cloning research efforts.

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A hideous, evil disregard for human life.

[rintense]

It is. The negative side of this is many women have their eggs harvested in order to give birth via In Vitro Fertilization. Women who go through this procedure, as well as women who donate eggs so other women can have children, are given drugs that can produce as many as 40 follicles (eggs) for retrieval. My OB/GYN nurse produced 60 eggs which she donated. Under proper supervision by a fertility specialist, this procedure is pretty straight forward. Yes, complications can occur, but hardly enough to start regulating or stopping these kinds of procedures for women who want to have children.

Now doing this to retrieve eggs for the sole purpose of research is an entirely different story.