By Judith Tan

THE health authorities have accepted a high-level ethics committee's recommendation to compensate women for donating their eggs.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) said it would amend the Human Cloning and Other Prohibited Practices Act, which now allows women to be reimbursed only for expenses such as travel and childcare.

The Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) of Singapore recommended on Monday that women also be compensated for earnings lost during the time taken for egg donation. MOH said it would amend the Act to allow this.

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