Egg freezing, procreative liberty, and ICSI: the double standards confronting elective self-donation of oocytes
Received 30 March 2009; received in revised form 19 August 2009; accepted 9 September 2009. published online 19 October 2009.
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.
Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
Reprint requests: Eli A. Rybak, M.D., M.P.H., Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Mazer Building, Room 316, Bronx, NY 10461 (FAX: 973-471-6854).
E.R. has nothing to disclose. H.L. has nothing to disclose.
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