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Korean Lab Worker Forced to Donate Her Own Eggs

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the new-donate-to-work-policy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Woo Suk Hwang had attained international fame by successfully cloning a human embryo, but he accomplished his feat by pressuring a lab worker into donating her own eggs. Consequently, Gerald Schatten, a cell biologist at the University of Pittsburgh, has severed his ties with Mr. Hwang and cited gross breaches of ethics."

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  1. Re:North or South by dot.solipsist · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dr. Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul University

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  2. Nelson Muntz by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ha ha!

  3. Re:but they all want to force someone to give up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    People are regularly forced to give to other's causes ... It called taxes.
    As far as I know, all countries do this. In fact, some groups require ones entire person, as in mandatory enlistment or conscription. Many religous organisations do it overtly, calling it something polite like tithing, or covertly, by forcing their burdens on others by gaining exemptions.

  4. Re:Forced? by Landshark17 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Or an intern?

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