Women who donate their eggs for research in the UK should be compensated for the discomfort, risk, and inconveniences they suffer, according to a report published yesterday by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. In its report "The human body: donation for medicine and research," influential think tank recommends that the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) to pay for funerals of organ donors.
The debate about the ethics of paying egg donors was revived after the news last week that researchers in New York came a little more to use human eggs to transform cells adults in embryonic stem cells. The group paid their donor $ 8,000 each. At the same time, another set of scientists published an account of their failed attempts donor recruitment eggs in Massachusetts without pay.
Currently British regulators cap the reimbursement of sperm and egg donation £ 250 ($ 30). The amount is intended to cover the direct costs such as travel or parking. The new report recommends that donors for fertility treatments are reimbursed for lost wages as well.
Women who are willing to donate eggs for research should also receive payment for their time, inconvenience and discomfort, the report said. "We see egg donation for research purposes, really quite comparable to those who volunteer for phase I clinical trials," says Albert Weale, chairman of the Nuffield Council. The report stresses that it should be limits on the number of times a person can donate.
in its recommendations, the report said researchers should share the tissue donated by patients or the general public. " it is unacceptable for individual researchers or research groups to obstruct, inhibit or deny access to other researchers for research scientifically valid "on samples freely given, the report said.
the Board recommends that NHS conduct a pilot study to pay for the funerals of organ donors to see if such a program could increase donation rates. under the plan, the NHS should pay for funeral expenses for those who were on organ donation national registry if they have died in circumstances where their organs could be donated. It also recommends to ask the families when they authorize organ donation if they would also be willing to give other tissue for research purposes.
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