- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine
-
Dialogue 1 Hope -
Dialogue 2 Why is this Cell Different from Other Cells? -
Dialogue 3 The President’s Stem Cells -
Dialogue 4 The Dickey-Wicker Enigma -
Dialogue 5 The Moral Status of Embryos -
Dialogue 6 Creating Good from Immoral Acts -
Dialogue 7 Circumventing Embryocide -
Dialogue 8 My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes -
Dialogue 9 Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims -
Dialogue 10 Reversing Macular Degeneration -
Dialogue 11 My Stem Cells, My Cancer -
Dialogue 12 Reprogramming Cells -
Dialogue 13 My Personalized Disease Cells -
Dialogue 14 To Clone or not to Clone -
Dialogue 15 Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells is Immoral and Illegal (In Europe) -
Dialogue 16 My Embryo is Auctioned on the Internet -
Dialogue 17 Here Comes the Egg Man -
Dialogue 18 Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids -
Dialogue 19 Stem Cell Tourism -
Dialogue 20 Social Media Meet Science Hype -
Dialogue 21 Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos -
Dialogue 22 Was My Birth Embryo Me? -
Dialogue 23 Embryos without Ovaries -
Dialogue 24 How My Cells Became Drugs -
Dialogue 25 A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment - Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index
Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos
Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos
- Chapter:
- (p.147) Dialogue 21 Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos
- Source:
- Stem Cell Dialogues
- Author(s):
Sheldon Krimsky
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
In this dialogue, Dr. Rebecca Franklin and fellow feminist, twenty-five-year-old activist Jenny Gunderson, discuss the ways in which women relate to the moral status of human embryos. The feminist movements evolved through three stages, sometimes referred to as waves. The first wave of feminism was a human rights movement; the second wave focused on reproductive rights, self-help, self-determination, sexual power, consciousness raising, and economic opportunity for women; the third wave emphasized empowerment over sisterhood. Dr. Franklin considers herself a second-wave feminist and has always supported a woman's right to abortion. Gunderson is affiliated with a women's health group devoted to protecting women from “eggsploitation,” or the commercialization of their eggs, and its impact on women's health. Here she expresses her stand about deriving human embryonic stem cells without human eggs.
Keywords: feminism, women, human embryos, feminist movement, abortion, eggsploitation, commercialization, human eggs, female health, human embryonic stem cells
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Harnessing Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine
-
Dialogue 1 Hope -
Dialogue 2 Why is this Cell Different from Other Cells? -
Dialogue 3 The President’s Stem Cells -
Dialogue 4 The Dickey-Wicker Enigma -
Dialogue 5 The Moral Status of Embryos -
Dialogue 6 Creating Good from Immoral Acts -
Dialogue 7 Circumventing Embryocide -
Dialogue 8 My Personalized Beta Cells for Diabetes -
Dialogue 9 Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims -
Dialogue 10 Reversing Macular Degeneration -
Dialogue 11 My Stem Cells, My Cancer -
Dialogue 12 Reprogramming Cells -
Dialogue 13 My Personalized Disease Cells -
Dialogue 14 To Clone or not to Clone -
Dialogue 15 Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells is Immoral and Illegal (In Europe) -
Dialogue 16 My Embryo is Auctioned on the Internet -
Dialogue 17 Here Comes the Egg Man -
Dialogue 18 Human-Animal Chimeras and Hybrids -
Dialogue 19 Stem Cell Tourism -
Dialogue 20 Social Media Meet Science Hype -
Dialogue 21 Feminism and the Commercialization of Human Eggs/Embryos -
Dialogue 22 Was My Birth Embryo Me? -
Dialogue 23 Embryos without Ovaries -
Dialogue 24 How My Cells Became Drugs -
Dialogue 25 A Clinical Trial for Paralysis Treatment - Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index