Harwood Karey
Department of Philosophy and Religion and Women's and Gender Studies at North Carolina State University, North Carolina 27695-8103, USA.
Bioethics. 2009 Jan;23(1):39-46. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00680.x. Epub 2008 Oct 9.
This article describes the relatively new technology of freezing human eggs and examines whether egg freezing, specifically when it is used by healthy women as 'insurance' against age-related infertility, is a legitimate exercise of reproductive autonomy. Although egg freezing has the potential to expand women's reproductive options and thus may represent a breakthrough for reproductive autonomy, I argue that without adequate information about likely outcomes and risks, women may be choosing to freeze their eggs in a commercially exploitative context, thus undermining rather than expanding reproductive autonomy.
本文介绍了相对较新的人类卵子冷冻技术，并探讨卵子冷冻，特别是当健康女性将其用作抵御与年龄相关的不孕症的“保险”时，是否是对生殖自主权的合理行使。虽然卵子冷冻有可能扩大女性的生殖选择，因此可能代表生殖自主权的一项突破，但我认为，如果没有关于可能结果和风险的充分信息，女性可能是在商业剥削的背景下选择冷冻卵子，从而损害而非扩大生殖自主权。
