Stem Cell Dialogues: A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers
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Dialogue 17 Here Comes the Egg Man: Oocytes & Embryos.org
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Published:23 June 2015
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In this dialogue, Dr. Rebecca Franklin is having a conversation with Viktor Morovsky, a Russian immigrant, and Arthur Worthington III, a venture capitalist, regarding the sale or auction of human eggs. Morovsky dreams of making a great deal of money in the American capitalist system as a distributor for oocytes that people who have undergone in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures no longer want. His company, Oocytes & Embryos.Org, is preparing to go international and aims to be the largest single provider of oocyte sources for embryonic stem cells. Worthington has invested lucratively in biotechnology and has made billions in BioVenture Associates. Here Morovsky, Worthington, and Franklin discuss the technical aspects of Morovsky's business plan; the international market for selling oocytes and IVF embryos; how Markovsky and Worthington will deal with the activist groups that are in opposition to paying egg donors; the possibility that poor women will find a way to sell eggs through the black market; and the ethics of selling eggs for IVF and research.
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