Women to be paid for egg donation in UK

[Jennifer123]

observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,2015789,00.html

"‘Women are intelligent enough to make decisions for themselves about whether they want to donate eggs for research,’ said Braude. 'Why should they be prevented from doing this? They shouldn’t be, as long as they are told about the risks. "

*Sound familiar? When will women wake up??? You aren’t going to be told the risks! This is just so disturbing. *

“Scientists need supplies of human eggs for stem cell research. Stem cells are found in high numbers in embryos and are used by the body to create brain, skin, bone and other cells.”

 

[Rosalinda]

…At present, clinics are not allowed to accept eggs donated for scientific research unless they are a byproduct of either IVF treatment or sterilisation. Campaigners for change say that this has led to a chronic shortage of eggs for scientific…

This may sound unfair but if doctors are prepared to experiment on tiny embryonic children to find their Holy Grail of eternal life through all the expected cures from hESCR than I wonder how many women with benign conditions such as endometriosis are at risk of being sterilized so that unscrupulous doctors may have access to their ovaries. Let’s face it, women under a surgeon’s care are at his mercy. He may figure he has better use for her ovary than she does. After all, if this much needed resource has the potential to advance science it might be tempting to excise the ovary rather than bother with tedious repair work. The trusting patient would be none the wiser and the ob-gyn would have full rights to dispose of this “byproduct” as he pleases.

Just a thought.

 

[Gabriel_Gale]

We are placing women on the level of hens.

 

[Gabriel_Gale]

From the Telegraph HT; Wesley Smith
Women who donate their eggs for research are at risk from life-threatening side effects, scientists warn in a new study.
They say that the powerful drugs given to the volunteers to help increase the number of eggs they produce can cause paralysis, limb amputation and even death.

Among all women undergoing infertility treatment, one in 10 will suffer milder forms of the adverse reaction called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) while 1 per cent are at risk of life-threatening blood disorders, the scientists found.

Gita Nargund, the head of reproductive medicine at St George’s Hospital, London, has campaigned for the use of alternative treatments to the strong hormones used to stimulate women’s ovaries to produce more than the one egg normally released in each monthly cycle.
She said that, in addition to those reported in the Italian study, there have been two deaths from OHSS in the UK, and a further death of a woman during an egg collection procedure in Leicester last year.

“The risks of this procedure must be taken into account,” she said. “It is not like blood donation and we have to ask ourselves if it’s really necessary. If we are recruiting donors for anything, it is important that what we are doing is as safe as possible.”

 

[apricot_yogurt]

The women don’t seem to comprehend that they are giving away any number of their children to be experimented upon and given away. It is very different from donating blood or organs.