Egg Donors Risk Paralysis, Limb Amputation, and Death
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!"
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 7:11 PM
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5 Comments:
I think we've already seen from abortion that the issue is having the illusion of control, and not women's lives, health, or well-being.
Hi, surfincyperz, and thanks for stopping by. I think you make an important point. In science many see what they used to find in faith. What was that statement, God's in his heaven and all's right with the world?
Science has become an end for some, rather than a means. And that is when it becomes dangerous.
If one checks over at a thread on the subject at the left-leaning Democratic Underground message board, there is the mentality that it is "freedom of choice" for women to do whatever they want with their bodies regarding egg donations.
The issue has nothing whatever to do with abortion, but the choice rhetoric from the "bioethicists" has conned many people into believing exploiting women is somehow beneficial to both them and society.
Abortion reminds me of the slavery issue in that it affects almost every issue we face. But I believe we should look at each issue as a distinct matter, without regard to how and whether it might conceivably affect the right to an abortion. And you are right, exploiting the poor by paying them to risk their health to provide their eggs to help Big Biotech would hardly be "choice." The Left of all people, should see that.
"And you are right, exploiting the poor by paying them to risk their health to provide their eggs to help Big Biotech would hardly be "choice." The Left of all people, should see that."
You'd think so, but the left, to generalise, doesn't seem to really care much about the poor and downtrodden at all, but care far more about abstract ideas. They would advocate for sounder ideas if they actually cared how they effect the poor.
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