Op-Ed: Emerging Human Embryo Market Poses Moral and Ethical Dilemmas

April 23, 2008

What is a human life worth?

For centuries, that question has been asked in the context of the cost of keeping people alive. In recent years, however, it has expanded to include the value of creating people in other than the natural manner–the “businesses” of sperm donation, artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, and cloning.

Now the issue has broadened yet again. What about the “business”–now a $3 billion per year trade–of women selling their eggs? (Heartland Institute)