The proposed law allowing women to be paid to donate their eggs would put California women, especially low-income women who may be especially desperate for the compensation, at risk. Columnist hiltzikm explains:
The University of California regents are wrestling with a question that should have an easy answer: Should they approve an “affiliation” between UC San Francisco, one of the leading teaching hospitals in America, and Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital chain that openly discriminates against women and LGBTQ patients and requires its doctors to comply with religious directives, some of which run counter to medical science and ethical...
The ASRM and Burke both treat egg donations for research and donations to help couples achieve fertility as essentially the same. They’re wrong. California doesn’t regulate payments to donors for fertility treatments, including those of strangers, because they tend to be private contracts.
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