At the Alternative Parenting Show last weekend, the London Women’s Clinic launched the nation’s first egg bank. The headline controversy is that, for the first time, following changes to the regulations, women can be paid for donation.
there is a fight brewing around this industry, for years so celebrated that, in 2010, its white knight, Sir Robert Edwards, won the Nobel prize for medicine. He was responsible for the birth of Louise Brown, the world’s first “test-tube” baby, in 1978. She was the first of five million. Who could see this as anything but a success story?
Well, it’s a market, and a global market – like any other it will inevitably one day clash with human decency.
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