WOMEN who donate their eggs for research should be reimbursed only for their expenses such as cab fares, and earnings in the time taken.

They should not be paid for the inconvenience, the pain they undergo, nor the risks involved, said the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) of Singapore, which on Monday unveiled seven recommendations on the handling of human eggs donated for research.

BAC chairman Lim Pin said that it did not want human egg donation to become a 'business opportunity', where women made money by trading their eggs.

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