Egg Donation

Fool me twice: California’s stem cell fiasco

They’re BAAAACK….for more of your money Proponents of embryonic stem cell experimentation are attempting to resurrect the failed California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), originally launched in 2004 under Proposition 71. A new bond measure, which will appear on the November ballot as Proposition 14, will cost taxpayers nearly $8 billion, including interest. The Prop …

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Victory for Life and Women’s Health in California

As LLDF reported last month, AB 926 was passed by the California legislature. The bill would have allowed payment to women for the harvesting of their eggs for research purposes. On August 13, 2013, Governor Brown issued a veto statement in which he reminded the Legislature, “Not everything in life is for sale, nor should …

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California Schemin’

Jennifer Lahl In an effort to get more eggs into the hands of cloning researchers, the president of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), Alan Trounson, recently suggested the solution to the human egg shortage is to implement an “egg-sharing” program. Rule number one: always BEWARE of euphemisms! At the February 28, 2008, CIRM …

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