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Nature 442, 629-630 (10 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442629a; Published online 9 August 2006

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Insoo Hyun1

  1. Insoo Hyun is in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

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Women who donate their eggs for stem-cell research should be compensated in the same way as other healthy research volunteers, argues Insoo Hyun.

Women who undergo hormonal induction to generate oocytes for embryonic stem-cell research can receive financial compensation for their direct expenses only, according to ethical guidelines issued by the US National Academy of Sciences, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the state of Massachusetts. This narrow payment restriction has emerged as a conventional position among US policy-makers, but I will argue that it is ethically unwarranted and unfair.

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