Egg freezing, procreative liberty, and ICSI: the double standards confronting elective self-donation of oocytes

Fertil Steril. 2009 Nov;92(5):1509-12. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.09.008. Epub 2009 Oct 17.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Aging / physiology
  • Directed Tissue Donation / economics
  • Directed Tissue Donation / ethics
  • Directed Tissue Donation / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Elective Surgical Procedures / economics
  • Elective Surgical Procedures / ethics
  • Elective Surgical Procedures / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Female
  • Fertility / physiology*
  • Freedom*
  • Freezing*
  • Guidelines as Topic / standards
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Oocyte Donation / economics
  • Oocyte Donation / ethics
  • Oocyte Donation / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Oocyte Donation / methods
  • Oocytes*
  • Patient Rights
  • Pregnancy
  • Reproductive Medicine / ethics
  • Reproductive Medicine / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Reproductive Medicine / organization & administration
  • Risk Assessment
  • Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic* / economics
  • Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic* / ethics
  • Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic* / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic* / methods