For this assignment we will explore ethical issues on harvesting eggs from a deceased female. Identify at least THREE ethical issues found in this case. Research, explore, and present them addressing related ethical, legal, psychological, financial, societal, and financial concerns.

Ethical Issues on Harvesting Eggs

Firstly, read the article below. Identify at least THREE ethical issues found in this case. Research, explore, and present them addressing related ethical, legal, psychological, financial, societal, and financial concerns. Address any pros and cons, benefits and potential detriments aligned with facts in the article. Have there been similar cases? Be specific. Harvesting Dead Girl’s Eggs Raises Ethical Issues by Mikaela Conley ABC News Medical Unit August 11, 2011 An Israeli court has granted permission for family members to extract and freeze the eggs of its 17-year-old daughter, who died earlier this month in a car accident, according to the Israeli English-language website Haaretz.

Chen Aida Ayash died on Aug. 3, 10 days after she’d been struck by a car, at Kfar Sava’s Meir Hospital. Her parents donated her organs and obtained a court order to remove and freeze Chen’s eggs.  They’d initially requested that the eggs be fertilized with donated sperm, but judges declined the petition until the family could prove that Chen had wanted to have children. “Ethically, the important issue is not whether the woman would have wanted children,” said Rosamond Rhodes, director of bioethics education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

Ethical Issues on Harvesting Eggs

“Regardless of the reproductive possibilities, she will not be around to have the child [or] children.” Instead, Rhodes said the critical issue is whether Chen would have wanted her biological children to come to life after she was dead.  “People can have strong negative feelings about this possibility — it can sound really yucky. And many people would not want others, including their own parents, to raise their biological child.”

Ethical Issues on Harvesting Eggs

The court decision is the first of its kind in Israel, and possibly the world, to allow a family to extract a woman’s ova after her death, but there have been cases in which families harvest sperm after death. Despite the growing number of cases, medical ethicists remain unsettled with the idea of extracting eggs and semen after death. https://youtu.be/1yQUSoApNJU

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