Editorial: Eggs for sale
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...And egg donation allows that same child to have three different mothers: genetic, gestational, and social...
...When everything has a price, we are unable to determine the value of anything...
...Well, the College of Cardinals still has no co-eds...
...WILLIAM PFAFF BLO@DSHED |M K@$0u What can be done...
...Blood and sperm are considered "body parts" and can be sold, although blood banks have striven mightily to encourage voluntary donations of blood, "the gift of life...
...If Saddam Hussein keeps the promises made to Kofi Annan concerning arms inspections, he is within sight of an end to sanctions...
...http://www.commonwe almagazine.org Eggs f o r sale ~ ecently the Chinese dissident Harry Wu assisted the police in the arrest of two men in New York City for allegedly offering to sell the kidneys of executed Chinese prisoners for transplant...
...for example, "Women are of little consequence in the church...
...And in 1996 (again in 1997) women superiors general acquired names and recognition in the Annuario...
...It is time for the appropriate professional bodies to do it for them...
...p. 31, Chariot...
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...Still, the wholesale commercialization of egg donation is gaining momentum...
...Our thinking about human procreation obviously has a profound impact on our attitudes toward children and how we understand what it means to be a human person...
...Responding to those who think it is a "waste" not to use such organs, Wu pointed out that the prisoners, many of whose crimes are "political," cannot give consent...
...Now the conundrums thrown up by Commonweal 5 March 27, 1998 medical science, especially organ transplants and genetic manipulation, combined with notions of unfettered individual choice and self-determination, are eroding even those barriers...
...Instinct and history tell us that selling human beings and human organs, even for apparently altruistic motives, is an assault on the integrity of the human person...
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...Kosovo, in terms of international law, is a Serbian internal affair...
...As previously noted in this magazine (December 16, 1994), Lorenzoni once had occasion to look up, in quick succession, the names of the superiors general of the Fathers of Mercy, an order with exactly seven members worldwide, and of the Salesian sisters, with nearly 18,000 members...
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...In both cases, he relied on the Annuario Pontiffcio, the Vatican yearbook...
...There is an immense emotional charge behind their belief that Kosovo, because of Serbia's history, is an inalienable part of Serbia, whoever actually may live there...
...We are on the brink of crude commercial transactions in human eggs...
...There's no point in publishing the names of women superiors because who needs to know them...
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...all the superiors of all the men's orders were there, none of the women superiors...
...But the leaders of the democracy demonstrations, which then seemed so impressive, squandered that opportunity in sterile personal rivalries...
...he spent nineteen years in a Chinese prison...
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...I do not say the innocent population, because the voters of Serbia unquestionably support repression of the movement for Albanian autonomy or independence in Kosovo...
...he can say: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for womankind...
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...By defying the United States last fall, and again last month, the Iraqi dictator has fired national pride and won an increase in permitted oil sales and humanitarian imports...
...Medicine's marriage to high technology has created novel threats to human dignity...
...The likely exploitation of the poor and the moral taint, even revulsion, associated with the idea of selling human flesh have traditionally fueled strong resistance to the commodification of human life...
...Uncollected body is possible Harry Wu's body," he angrily told the New York Times...
...Hussein went to war with Iran in 1980, thinking to overthrow the revolutionary government there (and enjoyed tacit American sympathy in doing so, as well as subsequent intelligence and arms help...
...A robust commercial trade in kidneys exists in India, for example, with the poor providing spare parts for the wealthy...
...Giving technology and commerce such a large role in babymaking will increasingly compel us, legally and in other ways, to think of new life as an object to be manipulated and sold like any other...
...3,15, Antonucci...
...In 1994 Archbishop Maurice Couture of Quebec pointed to the Annuario's odd custom as an instance of churchly discrimination against women...
...Ladies Last Stepping to the surface of the moon on June 20,1969, Neil Armstrong radioed a prepared message back to Earth: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind...
...Similar threats pervade the highly profitable world of reproductive technology...
...p. 20, Kit Kittle...
...The hysteria which often surrounds discussion of Saddam Hussein obscures the fact that because he has been an international aggressor he has been easier to deal with than Slobodan Milosevic...
...But, of course, who would be so naive as to imagine that reproductive technology would stop with the altruistic spirit with which medicine first introduced it to infertile couples and justified it to society at large...
...In Iraq, where an even more ruthless apparatus of political control exists, no outsider can know what the scale of opposition to Saddam Hussein really is...
...Other countries have not been as fastidious as the United States...
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...It drew agreement from various Vatican eminences who saw it at the time...
...Father Larry Lorenzoni may now be entitled to paraphrase Armstrong's line...
...And if medicine can't restrain itself, the federal government or state legislatures should...
...Do you want buy this kidney?...Maybe is Harry Wu....You don't care...
...For some time, deference to medical professionals and compassion for infertile couples has stayed the hand of regulatory bodies...
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...Read the New York Times front-page headline: "Price Soars for Eggs" (February 25...
...The Review article appeared in 1985...
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...It is illegal in the United States to sell human organs such as kidneys and liv ors...
...The Serbian people had their chance last winter to depose Slobodan Milosevic...
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...Wu reminds us that in harvesting the organs of the dead to save the living, we can undermine the value of all human life, especially when those organs come with a price tag...
...Wu should know...
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...Fast forward--with all deliberate speed--to today...
...In these circumstances, "making babies" becomes a depersonalized, even dehumanizing, process to be carefully arranged by contract...
...A part, body parts for yourself...
...In many eyes this dramatic escalation in bids crossed the hard-to-define line between offering fair "compensation" for a donor's risk and "enticement...
...Lorenzoni wrote a piece about it in the Irish Religious Lift" Review, suggesting some of the messages being sent...
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...You just want a kidney...
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...But it has become clear that at least in the case of some new infertility treatments, physicians are themselves incapable of controlling and restraining their own practices...
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...Under increasing pressure from the demands of the marketplace, human eggs "donated" by some women for fertilization and implantation in other women are now fetching thousands of dollars...
...Shi'ites in the southern half of the country, and the Kurds in the north, resist Baghdad's domination, but that predates the present regime...
...Medical science now makes it possible for a man to be the biological father of a child whose mother he's never met...
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...One giant leap...
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...Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey, made front-page news by advertising that it would pay donors $5,000...
...C The similarities, and the differences, influenced the response to the Kosovo crisis of the so-called Contact Group in London in early March...
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...foreign, $87...
...That doubled the customary rate to compensate for a donor's risk and inconvenience...
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...And, as Harry Wu dramatically demonstrated, the organs of prisoners executed in China may soon be marketed worldwide...
...The father superior of ten men is more important than the mother superior of 10,000 women...
...The male name was there...
Vol. 125 • March 1998 • No. 6
