Many U.S. fertility clinics did not inform the donor egg embryo made of eggs they may end up being used in stem cell research, according to a new Government survey.
That’s despite extensive of such research, which is considered to be morally offensive by the three Americans, the researchers wrote in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
They found that among 100 fertility clinic, the two said they did not have the consent form for a female egg donation.
66 the clinic sent in the consent form and says they use excess embryos for research, only 20 say women about it. And only three of the 38 clinics used some embryonic stem cell Research in particular expressed that donors.
“The survey shows that only a partial mention clinic IVF (in vitro fertilization) to egg donor who donates for the sake of treatment (as opposed to research) that the embryo resulting finally used research,” said study author Gerald Owen Schaefer Bethesda, Maryland. “The minority is even smaller more stem cell research is explicitly.”