Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we decide what human eggs are worth — and how do the ...

Women in India were told they couldn't be paid for their eggs. The result: a black market for eggs from women in need of ...

Sophia Bouzid ’24 was a biology and public health double major and a 2023-24 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. UCSF ...

‘I’m not using them – I’m literally just flushing them away,’ says Katie Higgins, when asked why she chose to donate her eggs. It was by chance that Katie, who was then 28, first considered egg ...

Eggs or sperm donated for the purpose of assisted reproductive technology may not be used for any destructive purposes, including but not limited to: Scientific or clinical research; Development of ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to honor a spouse’s seemingly irrational request about privacy and assisted reproduction. By Kwame Anthony Appiah My husband and I are thrilled to be ...

India radically tightened its rules on egg donation to make it altruistic, but that move triggered a vibrant black market for human eggs.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – A bill that would require explicit consent for harvesting egg and sperm cells after someone dies passed the South Dakota House Health and Human Services Committee. House ...

“The mass production and destruction of embryos associated with egg donation is also ethically questionable, as the beginning of human life cannot be precisely defined in scientific terms,” added the ...