If you were to ask your average person in the street whether or not patients should only be allowed surgery if they agreed to take part in medical trials I think it is fair to say that the answer would be a resounding no.
Yet one of the more recent Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority proposals, now approved by the Fertility Regulator, suggests something even worse - that patients can only have treatment at a reduced fee if they agree to their potential offspring taking part in medical trials. Furthermore, the trials are of a medical technique that many disagree with - human cloning.
If a couple have tried naturally to have children and have suffered fertility problems along the way they are going to have suffered more distress than many people can imagine and perhaps also suffered the loss of a child(ren) along the way.
Yet, it is considered acceptable to make reduced cost IVF conditional on donating half of their eggs in order to create cloned embryos. It is illegal to pay egg donors directly, therefore this is just introducing payment by the back door - and a very dubious payment at that.
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