NCER Comments: In Mexico, women were paid to be artificially inseminated and then donate the resulting embryos for research. The women had to receive powerful hormone therapy, which carries considerable health risks, both i...
Ethical Issues Surrounding Egg Donation in Genome Editing Research
NCER Comments Are women who receive payment to donate their eggs able to fully understand the health risks (possibly cancer or death) entailed so as to give informed consent? Additionally, does this practice violate the ethical principl...
For a Change of Heart, Would-be Egg Donors Face Threats and Bills
NCER Comments There is very little legal oversight in the marketplace of selling human eggs, and women who initially agree to donate but then change their minds are often harassed and threatened by fertility clinics. Julie Johnson was one ...
He Jiankui faces three years in prison for CRISPR babies
MIT Technology Review The Chinese scientist and two associates were sentenced after a secret trial. by Antonio Regalado Dec 30, 2019 The Chinese scientist who created the world’s first gene-edited children has been sentenced to three y...
