Egg freezing, procreative liberty, and ICSI: the double standards confronting elective self-donation of oocytes.
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چکیده
The consensus view among relevant professional societies opposing the offering of elective oocyte cryopreservation for potential future self-donation withstands neither clinical nor ethical scrutiny. The favorable risk-benefit ratio of this technology mandates both the prioritization of patient autonomy for informed women seeking to maximize-not guarantee-their chances of having genetically related children, and a justification for viewing egg freezing differently from intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Fertility and sterility
دوره 92 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009