Who is Really Exploiting Women?

Bills are pending in Congress offering good news on the stem cell research debate, bad news for the feminazis. How to oppose this new common sense approach that advances research without destroying human life, especially after the revelations about researchers' exploitation of women:

Hwang's violation involved the exploitation of women, who undergo a risky and unpleasant procedure -- first, ovarian hyperstimulation, then the insertion of a needle into their ovaries to procure the wanted oocytes -- with no medical benefit to themselves. In the attempt to produce a single cloned embryo, thousands of eggs were harvested and used as raw materials.

In South Korea, the buying and selling of eggs was done in the shadows, covered up by false documents and brazen lies. This would never happen in America, researchers assure us. But as time goes on, rather than calling research cloning itself into question, some will call the ethical limits into question: Why not pay women for their eggs? Why not induce poor women to profit by risking their health? Of course, no responsible doctor could advise his patient to undergo such a procedure. But perhaps we will simply "update" basic medical ethics as well, and decide that the "good of mankind" trumps the good of individual patients.

Fortunately there are some ethical scientists who have pursued promising alternatives.

There goes fundraising for Emily's List and their candidates. (Governor Blagojevich are you listening?)

Washington Post here, via RCP.