On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:39:49 GMT, "MCP" 
wrote:

>
>The authority - which concluded that the money paid was in line with UK
>guidance which stipulates that a donor must be paid only expenses - then
>lifted a year-long ban on the mail-order scheme in February.
>
>But fertility experts yesterday described such payments as
"exploitative".
>
>Dr Allan Pacey, secretary of the British Fertility Society, said he was
>concerned that little was being done to protect donors.

Does Dr. Pacey "protect" himself by working for free?

>
>"It's all a bit convenient" he said. "In the UK, we have
a shortage of
>donors, but is the ethical answer to this to go to a country where money
>talks?"

The ethical answer is to realize that people, not the government or
its doctors, own their own bodies.



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