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"Mr President, European legislation clearly states that human tissues may not be traded, purchased or sold. Any other position on this matter would open up the floodgates to corrupt practices.
Trade in organs and tissues goes on in various parts of the world, but its victims are inevitably the poorest of the poor, forced by poverty into selling valuable assets. Although Europe has always opposed trade of this kind, it has always supported and continues to support voluntary and unconstrained donations, for example of blood. It also agrees to the donation of egg cells if the donation is genuine, or in other words a voluntary, unselfish and free act. European legislation defends the poorest of the poor, and prevents human beings being commercialised. It works on the principle that not everything may be bought or sold, even if the seller agrees to an exchange of money.
How can it be explained that Romanian clinics offer a wide range of egg cells for free? Are Romanian women fundamentally different to women in other countries? Are they more inclined to make sacrifices for the benefit of anonymous recipients? Or is it possible that the explanation is to be found in their economic situation, or in other words in the fact that they are illegally paid? Investigations must be carried out into whether these women are given hormone treatment beforehand, and if they are aware that such treatment can have an effect on their health.
Is the initiative by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to pay women GBP 1000 in compensation not an attempt to subvert the principles of European legislation? If this is the case, does it not expose women who are already at a disadvantage as a result of difficult financial situations and poverty to even greater exploitation and humiliation? Are they not at risk of being treated like factories full of parts that can be traded, or like bodies subject to the laws of the market that produce tissues needed by others to order and for a certain price? The European Commission and the Commissioner should look into all these matters in order to be able to provide answers to the many questions raised."@en1
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