The Washington Post-New York to Pay for Eggs from Stem Cell Research By Rob Stein, Staff Writer, June 26, 2009 New York is the first state to allow women to give their eggs to embryonic stem cell research. The critics are afraid that the women will be exploited. The women will be given $10,000 for their donations of eggs for experiments. “This is a great, appropriate policy,” said Susan Solomon, co-founder of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, a private nonprofit research organization. “This could help us to pursue some critical experiments that we hope will lead to treatments for devastating diseases.” One of the goals to that they want to produce stem cells using the nucleus from the patients cells, the stem cells produced would not be rejected by the host immune system. Laurie Zoloth, a Northwestern University Bioethics, states “Whenever society starts to pay for relationships that are traditionally done with Altruism and generosity with in families, it raises the issue of whether there is anything not for sale.” Jonathan Moreno, a bioethics at University of Pennsylvania States that “In a field that’s already the object of a great deal of controversy, the question is, are we at the point where we really need to go that route in order to do the science?” “I’m not convinced” Embryonic cell research is considered a promising area in biomedical science. Stem cells are able to become any cell that is needed to cure diseases. The controversy comes with the embryonic cells that are destroyed when they are days old, some see this as killing. Women have been reimbursed for donating eggs for infertile couples to have children in vitro; this is really not any different except that they are not allowing the embryos to develop fully. They are taking the genetic material from the nucleus of the eggs and using the stem cells to research cures for disease. There is a lot of bioethical controversy in the stem cell research area of biomedicine. Critics worry that the move could lead to the exploitation of women, especially poor women, who tend not to be in demand for infertility donation. In the Kantian Ethics he believed that Moral rules have no exceptions. Killing is always wrong. Lying is always wrong. The action described by the moral rule is necessary and independent of surrounding circumstances or purposes. The Critics that consider stem cell research killing would agree that this does not follow the Kantian Ethics.