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Egg Donors Risk Paralysis, Limb Amputation, and Death |
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Saturday, 17 February 2007 |
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Wesley J. Smith
Saturday, February 17, 2007
As I just posted, the UK will permit poor women to be exploited by selling their eggs--all in the name of promoting the great god science, of course. Inconveniently, a study just was just published illustrating the pronounced risks that these poor women will face. As the Telegraph reported:"Women who donate their eggs for research are at risk from life-threatening side effects, scientists warn in a new study. They say that the powerful drugs given to the volunteers to help increase the number of eggs they produce can cause paralysis, limb amputation and even death.
The story points out that at least three women died in the UK alone last year from egg donation for IVF treatments: "Gita Nargund, the head of reproductive medicine at St George's Hospital, London, has campaigned for the use of alternative treatments to the strong hormones used to stimulate women's ovaries to produce more than the one egg normally released in each monthly cycle. She said that, in addition to those reported in the Italian study, there have been two deaths from OHSS in the UK, and a further death of a woman during an egg collection procedure in Leicester last year."
Feminists and pro-life groups should ally on this issue and create an advertising campaign in the UK warning women, "Donating Eggs for Research Could Kill You!" |
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Legal chaos as mother loses battle to use her embryos |
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Thursday, 16 November 2006 |
Irish Independent
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Thursday November 16th 2006
Judge highlights major political failings
THE full extent of the legal chaos surrounding the rights of the unborn was laid bare last night.
This followed a ruling in which a Dublin mother lost her High Court battle to have three embryos implanted in her womb against the wishes of her estranged husband.
The ruling highlights the Government's failure to:
* Define what unborn means.
* Regulate the assisted-pregnancy industry.
* Legislate on abortion.
* Cope with the massive implications of stem cell research, cloning, genetic screening and selection.
The legal and political faultlines were exposed by the High Court judge who handed down yesterday's ruling over the fate of the frozen embryos.
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US guidelines restrict number of embryos transferred during IVF |
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Thursday, 09 November 2006 |
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The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the US Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) have issued new guidelines limiting embryo transfer during IVF procedures to reduce the occurrence of multiple births. Announced at the annual ASRM meeting, held in New Orleans last week, the revised guidelines recommend that no more than two embryos should be transferred to women under 35 during a single cycle of IVF treatment, and that clinics should consider the possibility of transferring only one. For older women the recommended number of embryos increases, but to no more than five. The guidelines state that for women aged between 35 and 37, up to three embryos should be transferred, with up to four recommended for women aged between 37 and 40, and no more than five for women over 40. |
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