A private clinic in London on Wednesday raffle chance to win fertility treatment with donor eggs from a chosen according to personal preferences, British media reported Sunday.

According to reports, the clinic The Bridge Center is presenting the initiative to promote a new service that launched in collaboration with Genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Virginia (USA), allowing women to get pregnant choose the profile of the egg donor.

The winner of the raffle will benefit from fertility treatment in the United States worth about 13,000 pounds (14,300 euros) and will choose the donor of the egg to personal preferences as to ethnicity, physical characteristics and education.

The service offered by the Anglo-American joint venture, aimed at women aged between 40 and 50, allows children to see pictures of the donors, university general between 20 and 30.

In the UK it is forbidden to pay for egg donation, except 250 pounds (about 276.3 million) in expenses, but in the U.S. donors can earn up to $ 6,600 based on their profile.

The partnership with the U.S. clinic will allow the British to circumvent the law in Britain, which prohibits both the marketing of eggs as the choice of those with the characteristics of the donor.

The Bridge Center, which tomorrow celebrates a day of “open door” channel the treatments to the U.S., where the eggs will also provide “custom made”.

As part of the service of choice of eggs, which may be the Internet, aspiring fertilization processes may see photos of the children of donors, who passed a shortlist and, for example, can not be overweight, “and when the process is more advanced, including current images.

The news has sparked debate in the British press about the ethical issues involved the possibility of “buying” as eggs.

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