Just couldn’t resist highlighting this quote…
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THERAPEUTIC cloning could lead to hard-up women selling their eggs to supply the embryos, former deputy prime minister John Anderson suggested today as the stem cell debate heated up again.
Yes, and human organ transplant could lead to men and women selling their body parts for profit. Although WEE are not sure anyone would buy Anderson’s brain.
Honestly, could politicians in this debate actually have an intelligent exchange about this rather than fear-mongering? There’s all sorts of medical procedures, industrial procedures, biological procedures and other procedures that people can make an unethical profit from. We don’t ban all of those.
So yes, it is possible a ‘hard-up’ woman (please note that it’s always the ‘poor’ who do bad things) might want to sell her eggs, but that’s why we have a legal system and regulation. There are always people who will abuse a system, however regulation of this type seems to work for IVF, WEE are sure it just might work in this instance too.
