Should Women Make a Profit on Donating Their Eggs For Research?
By Larry Mantle,
KPCC
| 06. 20. 2013
[With CGS's Diane Tober]
[To listen to the full radio segment, go here]
The amount of money a woman can receive for donating eggs could shoot up from hundreds of dollars to thousands if a new law passes the state Senate. The Senate is expected to vote on a bill today that would allow women who donate their eggs for research to be paid over and above “direct expenses”. Fertility researchers complain that there is a shortage of eggs because women don’t have many incentives to go through the often painful procedure. But opponents argue that there’s not enough research into the safety of egg donation and it shouldn’t become a for-profit enterprise.
Guests:
Barbara Collura, President/CEO of Resolve: The National Infertility Association founded in 1974; listed as official support for AB926.
Diane Tober, PhD, Associate Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society
Related Articles
By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.30.2025
Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise difficult ethical, social and legal issues...
By Aleks Krotoski, The Guardian | 09.28.2025
Imagine you’re the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world. You have everything you could want at your disposal: power, influence, money. But, the problem is, your time at the top is fleeting. I’m not...
By Gregory Laub and Hannah Glaser, MedPage Today | 08.07.2025
In this MedPage Today interview, Leigh Turner, PhD, a professor of health policy and bioethics at the University of California Irvine, unpacks the growing influence of stem cell clinics and the blurred line between medicine and marketing. He explains how...
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.20.2025
A single infusion of a stem cell-based treatment may have cured 10 out of 12 people with the most severe form of type 1 diabetes. One year later, these 10 patients no longer need insulin. The other two patients need...