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Giving oocytes to women in need: permitted, forbidden, or pressured? A commentary

Author: Françoise Shenfield

Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research | Issue 1/2012

Abstract

There can be no starker contrast in egg donation than between Austria, where it is forbidden, and Israel, where it is encouraged to the extent that some Israeli women go abroad in order to obtain these precious reproductive cells. There are grave ethical issues in some of the transactions involved, which may fall out with the definition of a gift. The ESHRE taskforce on cross-border reproductive care is keen to promote standards in this field, including the ethical standard of avoiding coercion.

This is a commentary on http://www.ijhpr.org/content/1/1/15/

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ESHRE: COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2006/86/EC of 24 October 2006, Implementing Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards traceability requirements, notification of serious adverse reactions and events and certain technical requirements for the coding, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human tissues and cells. [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006L0086:EN:HTML]

Shenfield F, Pennings G, De Mouzon J, Ferraretti AP, Goossens V, on behalf of the ESHRE Task Force "Cross Border Reproductive Care": ESHRE's good practice guide for cross-border reproductive care for centers and practitioners. Hum Reprod. 2011, 26: 1625-1627. 10.1093/humrep/der090.CrossRefPubMed

Title: Giving oocytes to women in need: permitted, forbidden, or pressured? A commentary
Author: Françoise Shenfield
Publication date: 01-12-2012
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research / Issue 1/2012
Electronic ISSN: 2045-4015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-1-16

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