Beeson Diane, Lippman Abby
Department of Sociology and Social Services, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, CA 94542, USA.
Reprod Biomed Online. 2006 Oct;13(4):573-9. doi: 10.1016/s1472-6483(10)60647-5.
Increasingly, researchers are seeking eggs from young women to be used for embryo cloning procedures. The harvesting of multiple eggs often involves the administration of drugs that have not been approved for this purpose. Also these drugs have not been adequately studied for their long-term effects on women despite research providing some evidence of significant harm to women in both the short and long term. Current practices follow a historical pattern of exposing women to risks that ultimately prove unacceptable. In addition, egg harvesting is taking place in a research climate marked by conflicts of interest, the misleading use of language to describe research goals, and a commercial push that may lead to the exploitation of young women. In this article, we outline these matters and explain how they are leading to an international campaign for a moratorium on egg harvesting for cloning purposes.
越来越多的研究人员正在寻求年轻女性的卵子用于胚胎克隆程序。采集多个卵子通常涉及使用未经批准用于此目的的药物。而且，尽管研究提供了一些证据表明这些药物对女性短期和长期都有重大危害，但它们对女性的长期影响尚未得到充分研究。当前的做法遵循了一种历史模式，即让女性面临最终被证明不可接受的风险。此外，卵子采集是在一个存在利益冲突、对研究目标进行误导性语言描述以及商业推动可能导致对年轻女性剥削的研究环境中进行的。在本文中，我们概述了这些问题，并解释了它们是如何引发一场国际运动，要求暂停用于克隆目的的卵子采集的。
