IVF doctors to raffle human egg - Times Online 3/14/10

(My note: How low can we go?)

IVF doctors to raffle human egg
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article7061155.ece
(March 14/10. The Times)

"A fertility clinic is raffling a human egg in London to promote its new ³baby profiling² service, which circumvents British IVFlaws. The winner will be able to pick the egg donor by racial background, upbringing and education. Payment for profit is illegal in Britain, but the £13,000 [US $20,000] of free IVF treatment will be provided in America."

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"The sale of their eggs was condemned yesterday by Josephine Quintavalle, founder of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, a pressure group, who said the infertility market had plumbed new depths. ³In no other branch of medicine would the ruthless exploitation of the vulnerable be tolerated. These women selling their eggs are taking a huge risk with their health and future fertility simply because they need the money.²"

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article7061155.ece