Bjuresten Kerstin, Hovatta Outi
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, S-141 86 Stockholm, Sweden.
Hum Reprod. 2003 Jun;18(6):1353-5. doi: 10.1093/humrep/deg265.
The huge potential of human embryonic stem cells has been a subject of wide discussion as regards the ethical and legal justification of using human embryos for establishing such cell lines. The opinions of infertile couples and their willingness to donate their supernumerary embryos for stem cell research have not been investigated earlier.
We conducted an analysis of the answers of couples who were asked to give informed consent as regards donating their embryos for stem cell research in our IVF unit in 2001-2002.
Ninety-two percent of the couples gave informed consent as regards establishing and characterizing embryonic stem cell lines from the embryos which could not be used in their infertility treatment. Discussion in the Swedish media during May to December, 2001 regarding the importance and ethical justification of stem cell research made informing the couples easier.
A high proportion, 92%, of couples who underwent infertility treatment in Sweden preferred donating their supernumerary embryos for stem cell research rather than letting them be discarded.
人类胚胎干细胞的巨大潜力引发了广泛讨论，内容涉及利用人类胚胎建立此类细胞系的伦理和法律依据。此前尚未对不孕夫妇的观点及其捐赠多余胚胎用于干细胞研究的意愿进行调查。
我们对2001年至2002年期间在我们体外受精科室被要求就捐赠胚胎用于干细胞研究给予知情同意的夫妇的回答进行了分析。
92%的夫妇就利用无法用于其不孕治疗的胚胎建立和鉴定胚胎干细胞系给予了知情同意。2001年5月至12月瑞典媒体关于干细胞研究的重要性和伦理依据的讨论使告知夫妇变得更容易。
在瑞典接受不孕治疗的夫妇中，有92%的高比例夫妇更愿意捐赠多余胚胎用于干细胞研究，而不是任其被丢弃。
