Achieving National Altruistic Self-Sufficiency in Human Eggs for Third-Party Reproduction in Canada

Authors

Jocelyn Downie

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2014

Keywords

Bioethics, Canada, Altruistic Self-Sufficiency, Human Egg Trade, Third-Party Eggs, Canadian Assisted Human Reproduction Act

Abstract

To avoid the commercialization of reproduction, the Canadian Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act 2004) prohibits the purchase of human eggs. We endorse this legal prohibition and moreover believe that this facet of the law should not be allowed to have as an unintended consequence an increase in transnational trade in human eggs. In an effort to avoid this consequence, and to be consistent with the AHR Act, we advocate a system of national altruistic self-sufficiency. This article briefly outlines a number of strategies to increase the domestic altruistic supply of third-party eggs and decrease the domestic demand for third-party eggs.

Comments

Author's manuscript of article published in International Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (University of Toronto Press).

Recommended Citation

Jocelyn Downie & Françoise Baylis, "Achieving National Altruistic Self-Sufficiency in Human Eggs for Third-Party Reproduction in Canada" (2014) 7:1 Intl Feminist Approaches Bioethics 164.