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To: don-o
Opposition to the abuse of women in the acquisition of human ova for research...

Did I miss something here?

Is someone holding these women down and forcing them to give up their eggs?

This sounds like hyperbolic bull excrement to me.

9 posted on 05/11/2007 4:23:59 AM PDT by OldSmaj (Death to islam. I am now and will always be, a sworn enemy of all things muslim.)
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To: OldSmaj

It is not considered ethical (and I am talking accepted Western medical and scientific ethics, not morality) to have someone undergo a potentially dangerous medical procedure, for pay or for free, when there is no direct therapeutic benefit.

When an infertile woman undergoes ovarian stimulation for the purpose of having a child, that is a direct therapeutic benefit. When a woman does it for pay so eggs can be harvested for stem cell research, that is not a direct therapeutic benefit.

Egg collection seems to be the exception to this ethical rule.

Mrs VS


17 posted on 05/11/2007 6:12:39 AM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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