The New Sexual Predators: Egg Brokers

In Public Discourse, Alana Newman, founder of The Anonymous Us Project, writes about new groups of people who wish to take advantage of young, fertile women -- those who want to use their eggs and wombs. "So now, young women must do more than simply defend themselves against aggressive heterosexual males who want to use them for sex. They must also navigate a world filled with new, never-before-seen predators—people they thought they could trust—who aggressively target them for their eggs and their wombs."

Continue Reading at Public Discourse . . .

Protecting Women from Eggsploitation

It's time to ban Cash-Induced Human Egg Harvesting 

See a color-coded Map of State Laws Regarding Human Egg Harvesting. BDF provided the state law research for the Center for Bioethics and Culture's eye-opening documentary film, Eggsploitation: The infertility has a dirty little secret.

Embryo cloning for research will require millions of human eggs. How do embryo cloners and fertility clinics that supply them get their eggs? By offering thousands of dollars to cash-strapped college women and financially disadvantaged women to incentivize them to risk their health and future fertility for unethical and unproven science.

Only seven states ban human cloning for any reason, but the IVF industry is increasingly acting as a supplier of human eggs to biotech for human cloning. Learn the facts, and protect the women you love from being exploited by Big Biotech as egg farms.  

BDF provides pro-bono model legislation, tailored drafting consultation, and expert legislative testimony to state legislators and policy-makers. Contact us for Model Legislation on these biotech topics that impact the dignity of human life:

• Banning Cash-Induced Egg Harvesting
  
• Banning Human Embryo Cloning
  
• Banning Human-animal hybrid cloning*
  

Contact the BDF legal team at info@bdfund.org or 504-231-7234.

10.9.07 Harvard cloner complains about lack of human eggs, MIT Technology Review, October 9, 2007.


1.22.07 Pro-cloning advocate Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. states that incentivizing women to become egg farms is unethical, MSNBC, January 22, 2007.


FACT SHEET: Learn the Health Risks and Take Action to Promote Ovarian Health Protection Acts!

FACT SHEET: Is SCNT Really Human Cloning?

MORE FACTS: See a Compiled Resource on how Human Cloning for Embryonic Stem Cell Research Exploits Women





*Bioethics Defense Fund also provides model legislation and consultation on topics involving abortion, healthcare rights of conscience, and end-of-life issues.

Contact the BDF attorneys Nikolas T. Nikas and Dorinda C. Bordlee at info@bdfund.org or 504-231-7234.