Professor Ikemoto Interviewed on Reproductive Technology by Vice Media
Professor Lisa Ikemoto was interviewed on the social and political implications of new reproductive technologies such as egg freezing by Motherboard, a Vice Media technology news website. The article makes reference to Ikemoto's "Egg freezing, stratified reproduction and the logic of not," recently published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences.
"The whole practice of egg donation, sperm donation, surrogacy, and I think in addition to that egg freezing not only for one's own self but as a way of expanding egg banking for others' use: All that relies on wealth inequality," Ikemoto said. The commercial trade in human egg and sperm cells depends upon disparities between wealthy individuals who can afford to buy and those in financial need who sell, and the rapidly expanding market raises ethical, social, and regulatory issues, she said.
Lisa Ikemoto teaches bioethics and health law courses at the UC Davis School of Law. She has written extensively on genetic and reproductive technology, the regulation of fertility and pregnancy, and race and gender disparities in health care. Her current work examines emerging issues in regenerative medicine, including stem cell research, and the human tissues market.