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York Stem Cell Research Board Agrees to Pay for Women's Eggs for Science
Albany,
NY (LifeNews.com) — The Empire State Stem Cell Board has agreed to a
new plan, that has been soundly criticized by pro-life advocates, using taxpayer
funds to pay women who allow for the extraction of their eggs for research
purposes. The board will use money from the $600 million in state taxpayer
funds it oversees. The board has authorized up to $10,000 per retrieval and
the eggs would be used in human cloning and embryonic stem cell research that
has never helped any patients. The decision makes New York the only state
in the nation to allow tax-funded compensation for women who subject themselves
to the painful egg-extraction process for donations for research and goes
against recent decisions in states like California and Massachusetts, which
prohibit payment for eggs for research. Fr. Thomas Berg, member of the Ethics
Committee of the ESSCB, and director of the of the Westchester Institute,
told LifeNews.com the decision was wrongheaded. "Without
any involvement from the public, who might like to know that state cash will
be used as an inducement for underprivileged and cash-strapped women to undergo
a risky and potentially dangerous procedure, this Board has set in place a
plan to allow payments to women who undergo ovarian stimulation," he
said.
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