What's up with the eggs, doc?
17 May 2016 - 09:30
A pioneering Italian fertility doctor accused of forcibly harvesting women's eggs has denounced the allegations against him as a witch-hunt.Dr Severino Antinori has been placed under house arrest, while the claims are investigated.He is also accused of paying women up to about R17,400 per egg.His arrest was triggered by a complaint by a Spanish woman who claimed her eggs were taken without her consent last month at the physician's clinic in Milan.Investigators say the woman, who was working as a nurse at the clinic, claims she was immobilised and anaesthetised before her eggs were surgically harvested against her will . ..
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