Human Egg Donations to be Banned in S. Korea

Well, here’s something good that came out of the Hwang cloning fraud. South Korea, apparently, is on the verge of outlawing egg donations for use in biomedical research. Good. No woman should risk her life so that cloning researchers can do their work. This is also the agenda of Hands Off Our Ovaries.

I would be happy if we just had a ban on buying and selling eggs here in the USA and as part of international protocols. Already the cloners are complaining that they don’t have enough human eggs with which to clone embryos. Poor babies. But their “work” isn’t as important as protecting the wellbeing and health of women. Preventing companies from taking advantage of poor women, exposing them to the potential of sterility, infection, and even death, is an endeavor that should cut cross the usual ideological rifts.