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A discussion about whether women who donate eggs for infertility procedures are adequately looked after in the process descended into a verbal mauling at the annual meeting of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society on Thursday.
And in the main, the audience loved it.
Dr. Robert Stillman, medical director of a Washington, D.C. fertility clinic, verbally eviscerated the two other members of a panel that was meant to look at issues related to egg donation.
He dismissed as "anecdotes" the concerns raised by Alison Motluk, a Toronto-based freelance journalist who has investigated why women donate eggs and how they are treated in the process.
But Stillman saved his worst for Jennifer Lahl, executive director of the California-based Center for Bioethics and Culture.
Lahl is highly critical of assisted reproductive technologies or ART, as the field is called, and showed segments of a documentary she'd made called "Eggsploitation" to bolster her argument that egg donors face health risks they aren't told about by an industry that focuses its concern on helping infertile people have babies.
There's been no research on whether...
And in the main, the audience loved it.
Dr. Robert Stillman, medical director of a Washington, D.C. fertility clinic, verbally eviscerated the two other members of a panel that was meant to look at issues related to egg donation.
He dismissed as "anecdotes" the concerns raised by Alison Motluk, a Toronto-based freelance journalist who has investigated why women donate eggs and how they are treated in the process.
But Stillman saved his worst for Jennifer Lahl, executive director of the California-based Center for Bioethics and Culture.
Lahl is highly critical of assisted reproductive technologies or ART, as the field is called, and showed segments of a documentary she'd made called "Eggsploitation" to bolster her argument that egg donors face health risks they aren't told about by an industry that focuses its concern on helping infertile people have babies.
There's been no research on whether...