Via The Daily Mail comes a touching story about a mother's love for her daughter. When Melanie Boivin learned that her seven-year-old daughter Flavie had Turner's Syndrom, a rare condition which virtually always causes infertility, she was determined to find a way to help her.
After a year of research on the Internet, talking to experts and discussing it with her partner, she came up with the answer - to donate some of her own eggs for eventual use by Flavie. As a result, the little girl could one day give birth to her own half-brother or sister while Miss Boivin, 35, would be both a mother and grandmother to the infant. Said Ms. Boivin, "The role of a mother is essentially to help her children and if I could do anything in my power to help her I had to do it. I told myself if she had needed another organ like a kidney I would volunteer without any hesitation, and it is the same kind of thought process for this."
While most physicians and medical ethicists do not have a problem with this mother-daughter egg donation, some people are dismayed. For example, Josephine Quintavalle, of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said: "This is very worrying. We have to stop thinking of women only in terms of their reproductive potential. The daughter could live a full and happy life without having children of her own."
Interesting take. Not sure I agree with it as ultimately I think it should come down to the individual's personal choice and their absolute freedom to make those decisions. What do you all think? Does this story disturb you in any way?
