Posted on 07/31/2009 12:34:24 AM PDT by neverdem
The decision to offer New York women up to $10,000 to donate their eggs for stem cell research, payable by taxpayers, is "incredibly irresponsible and immoral," critics told FOXNews.com.
New York's decision to offer women in the state up to $10,000 to donate their eggs for stem cell research, payable by taxpayers, is "incredibly irresponsible and immoral," critics told FOXNews.com.
Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said the move -- the first of its kind nationwide -- treats women as "commodities, almost like cows" and could lead to cash-strapped women in other states to partake in similar programs.
A board that oversees New York's stem cell research recently voted to use state funds for the payments. Wright suggested that California might make a similar offer to egg donors.
"Women have something that researchers want to get their hands on, and now the government will pay for it," Wright told FOXNews.com. "It's taking advantage of disadvantaged women by enticing them with money, especially during an economic downturn. The timing of this is especially disconcerting."
New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Richard Daines said it's ethical to pay women to donate eggs because of the discomfort associated with the procedure. The program is expected to be in place by next year.
Donor eggs are required for embryonic stem cell research, which scientists believe could lead to cures for diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, as well as injuries to the spine.
David Almasi, executive director for the National Center for Public Policy Research, said a simple Internet search revealed programs offering eggs for $8,000...
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Agenda driven is, I believe, a better way to put it.
The researchers have wives and daughters. Some are even women. Why do they never donate their own?
No. I’m not going there.
I know what your thinking
It’s considered unethical for researchers to donate, because junior researchers could be pressured by their bosses to donate when they really didn’t want to, but feared losing their jobs if they didn’t (and the senior researchers, even if female, are generally way too old for egg donation). The resulting papers wouldn’t get published in any respectable journal if it was known this was occurring. It’s pretty well-documented that this happened with the disgraced Korean researcher who published the phony/doctored cloning research a few years back. He was using many, many more eggs than he was revealing, and appaently quite a few came from junior researchers in his lab.
Senior researchers wives are also likely to be too old to donate useful eggs. I wouldn’t be surprised if some daughters of researchers actually have donated eggs, but it would be kept quiet if it happened, because it would be viewed as unethical because of the likelihood of undue pressure if they had their own daughter donate, especially while she was still young enough to be enjoying parental financial support for college, grad school, etc. To the extent that any daughters or wives of researchers have donated eggs or embryos for research, it’s probably been in conjuction with their own fertility treatments, with just extras being donated for research.
Blind, hairy palms,turn gay etc.
Bizarre. Again.
It also occurs to me to ask, why no fanfare over purported advances in this same vein with animals? There is no shortage of chimp eggs to monkey around with, pardon the pun. Yet every time somebody cures cancer in mice it’s all over the news.
Those oughta be some high quality eggs since they are costing 40k. Maybe it skews your results if you paid for them, we do not pay blood donors for transfusables. What kind of women sell their eggs anyway? O, never mind.
You’d think they could just pass a law and TAKE the eggs.
For the good of the nation, of course.
Beat me to it.
Came first, as it were. LOL
Only blacks and hispanics need apply.
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I forgot these links. Drat!
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