Dr. Aniruddha Malpanifrom Bombay recently wrote about a request he recient from one potential patient. The patient listed a long list of qualifications that he demanded from an egg donor (qualities like that the donor would have to be very attractive, 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 8 inches height, light complexion, caucasion race, slender build, blue eyes, light colored hair)…
The patient even said that she would be willing to fly in an egg donor from America to India to have the procedure done there if necessary.
Now, the most obscure part of it all that she wanted to fertilize a cell and split it several times to produce 3 sets of up to 6 identical fertilized cells. The purpose is this step is to create the potential for identical twins (3 to 5 identical individuals). And then she wants those fertilized cells to be implanted in 4 surrogate mothers…
Even for me, I had Frankensteinish visions in the back of my mind when I read this…
Dr. Malpanifrom wasn’t comfortable with this request and thus posed the question whether this “wish list” is reasonable and how a doctor should react to it? Go over to his blog post and share your own opinion.
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