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British Agency Approves Cash for Human Egg Donations.
Calling it "not a payment, but compensation," the British Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) will allow women to receive up to [pounds sterling]250 (almost $500) to donate their eggs for research into human cloning and stem cells. Women can also receive discounts on in vitro fertilization (IVF) if they allow doctors to remove more eggs than necessary and use some for research.
The HFEA announced new egg donation regulations February 21. Previously, only surplus eggs from women undergoing IVF could be used by other women hoping to get pregnant, but the eggs were not able to be used for research, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
Two centers in Britain hold licenses for "therapeutic cloning," according to The Scotsman, and will probably be the recipients of the eggs donated under the new regulations. "Therapeutic cloning" means they seek to clone human beings, kill them, and harvest their stem cells for research.
Many in Britain objected to the money that will now be changing hands and the use of the eggs to create new human life that will then be killed. "The commercialisation of human tissue is a serious threat to the inherent value of human life, which is a longstanding principle of ethics," said Anthony Ozimic, political secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, in a press release. "To sell oneself, or parts of oneself, leads to devaluing of human beings. Human beings must be valued as persons; we are not commodities."
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