Op-Ed: Egg donation for research

September 25, 2006

The British Medical Association (BMA)’s Medical Ethics Committee (MEC) recently had a long and fascinating debate about egg donation for research. The debate was much broader than the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)’s consultation document, looking also at related issues such as payment for donation of other human material for research. Also, in view of the proposed merger of the HFEA and the Human Tissue Authority (HTA), the committee questioned what, if any, impact the HFEA’s approval of compensated egg sharing would have on the question of payment, in money or kind, for the donation of organs for treatment. (BioNews)