“精”明人打起“卵”主意
戳图直达本期配套模仿跟读节目~欢迎参加~与其领养，不孕不育人士现在更热衷使用捐献的精子和卵子跟自己的另一半结合生子。
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Amanda Segal
International Patient Services
Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center
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口语节目链接：http://bulo.hujiang.com/group/topic/660061/http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201209/201209230853505622655.mp3A worldwide market has developed in the building blocks of human reproduction. Women's eggs and men's sperm have arguably become commodities like any other to be bought and sold. This programme looks at some of the ways that's happening and who is profiting. The fertility industry has to deal with tight regulation in some Western countries. It's also benefited from the trend for working women to start their families later when they might have more problems conceiving. One example: if a woman can no longer produce her own healthy eggs, she might go to a clinic which offers donated eggs. In some countries, the law allows the women who provide these eggs to be paid for their services. The eggs are fertilised by the husband's sperm and then implanted into the childless woman. It seems egg donors from some ethnic backgrounds may be able to demand higher payments because of the scarcity value. I spoke to Amanda Segal of International Patient Services at the Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center near Washington DC. And I asked her what's been happening to demand.
"The demand is actually quite excessive. And adoption being so hard to come by, especially internationally, they found that with donor egg, there's still a part of their partner. So if they're using their partner's sperm, then at least they have control over that. And they get to carry their child."人类繁衍已发展成一个全球市场。女人的卵细胞和男人的精子可以像其他任何商品一样交易买卖。本节目研究了正在进行中的一些方式还有受益人。一些西方国家对生育产业有着严格的管制。但这一产业也得益于职业女性晚婚却难以怀孕的趋势。一个例子：如果一个女人自身不再排健康的卵子，她可能会去诊所寻找捐献的卵子。在一些国家，在法律许可的范围内，女人可以有偿提供健康卵细胞。这些卵细胞结合其丈夫的精子，然后植入不育的女人体内。从道德层面来看，卵细胞捐赠者值得更高的收益，这源自其稀缺价值。我和华盛顿附近Shady Grove 生育科学中心来自国际患者服务的阿曼达·西格尔就需求方面的市场反应做了交流。
“需求实际上是很多的。领养一直很难，尤其是国际层面，但是夫妇们发现有了捐赠的卵细胞，他们仍是对方的伴侣。所以如果他们用自己另一半的精子（使卵细胞受孕），那么至少他们还能控制受精卵，最终用有自己的孩子。”
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