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To the Editor: Egg donation to help an infertile woman achieve pregnancy is now an accepted procedure world-wide. Yet there is a shortage of available eggs, even if compensation is provided to donors for time, risk, and inconvenience¹. This has been most clearly shown in Britain, where scientists have proposed taking ovaries from aborted fetuses, maturing the eggs in a laboratory, fertilizing them with sperm, and implanting a resulting embryo in the womb of an infertile woman. This proposal has met with "unease, distaste and surprise"². Perhaps most unsettling is the notion that a child could have as . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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