Ova donation for stem cell research: An international perspective

• DOI: 10.3138/ijfab.1.2.125
• Publication Date: 2017-03-20T14:32:16Z
• Authors: Donna Dickenson; Itziar Alkorta Id...
• Keywords: Egg donation; Coercion (linguistics); Commodification; Bioethics

Should clinicians ask women to donate or even sell their eggs for stem cell research? Enucleated ova are crucial in somatic nuclear transfer technologies, but risky women’s health. Until comparatively recently, very few commentators debated the ethical issues egg donation and sale, concentrating on embryo’s status. The unmasking of Hwang Woo Suk, who used over 2,200 his fraudulent research, has finally brought question sale into prominence. In this article we offer an international comparison recent responses suggest that levels risk too imprecise enable give meaningful informed consent extraction. What do know risks also indicates they high potential donors sellers not being fully extent, raising disturbing concerning commodification, deception, coercion, exploitation.