California Bill Would Lift Ban on Paying Women for Eggs

A new bill introduced into the California legislature would lift the ban on paying women for their eggsAB 926, the Reproductive Health and Research Bill, says that to encourage reproductive health and research in the state, women need to be compensated for “donating” their eggs, a hot commodity in the embryonic stem cell research and infertility arenas....So why would California want more women to go through such a process just for research purposes? AB 926 gives a list of research that would benefit from having more human eggs, which includes reducing the high volume of multiple pregnancies in IVF. But there is some very disturbing verbiage in AB 926 including the assertion that research will benefit from the intentional creation of excess embryos.Continue reading at LifeNews >>
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Human eggs Source Type: blogs