How will payment for egg donation work?
In some countries, private IVF clinics advertise for egg donors and pay them to donate eggs. The clinics then charge their patients for the eggs (presumably with a mark up that goes to the clinic). In some cases clinics even trade eggs between themselves. It is not clear what the HFEA plans to do in Britain. 9. Since the Human Tissue Act bans the sale of tissues and organs, doesn’t that mean that an HFEA decision to allow sales of eggs will not lead to a market in organs? Anyway, such ‘slippery slope’ arguments are not valid: the law should be made on the basis of what is morally acceptable now and not on what may happen in the future. The current legal situation means that, yes, it is true that there would need to be a change in the law to allow sales of organs. However, there are often calls by transplant surgeons to allow the sale of organs, in order to make up the shortfall in Britain, and allowing the sale of eggs would make an eventual change in the law much more likely, since it
Related Questions
- We live in a society in which everything is sold as a commodity. If egg donation is ethically acceptable when done without payment, why does payment make it wrong?
- How do I change my electronic giving information, such as the amount of the donation, bank account number, collection date, or payment frequency?
- What is the chance of a recipient couple achieving a pregnancy with the process of egg donation?
