Goold Imogen, Savulescu Julian
St Anne's College, Oxford, UK.
Bioethics. 2009 Jan;23(1):47-58. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00679.x.
This article explores the social benefits and moral arguments in favour of women and couples freezing eggs and embryos for social reasons. Social IVF promotes equal participation by women in employment; it offers women more time to choose a partner; it provides better opportunities for the child as it allows couples more time to become financially stable; it may reduce the risk of genetic and chromosomal abnormality; it allows women and couples to have another child if circumstances change; it offers an option to women and children at risk of ovarian failure; it may increase the egg and embryo pool. There are strong arguments based on equal concern and respect for women which require that women have access to this new technology. Freezing eggs also avoids some of the moral objections associated with freezing embryos.
本文探讨了出于社会原因支持女性及夫妻冷冻卵子和胚胎的社会效益及道德论据。社会体外受精促进了女性平等参与就业；它为女性提供了更多选择伴侣的时间；它为孩子提供了更好的机会，因为它使夫妻有更多时间在经济上稳定下来；它可能降低遗传和染色体异常的风险；如果情况发生变化，它允许女性及夫妻生育另一个孩子；它为面临卵巢功能衰竭风险的女性和儿童提供了一种选择；它可能增加卵子和胚胎库。基于对女性的平等关注和尊重，有充分的论据要求女性能够使用这项新技术。冷冻卵子还避免了一些与冷冻胚胎相关的道德异议。
