Deborah Spar on Paying for Eggs

Harvard`s Debora Spar has a commentary in a recent New England Journal of Medicine article that calls for an improved debate over egg donation and payment policies. Spar highlights a central inconsistency in American egg donation policy?we allow women to sell eggs for reproductive purposes, but not for research, even though the risks and benefits to donors are the same in both cases. Both donors undergo the same set of medical risks, and both receive roughly the same direct benefits?basically nothing.

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