脐带血的法律问题思考

Thought about the Legal Issues of Umbilical Cord Blood

随着干细胞领域科学研究的不断拓展,脐带血(也可称为脐血)成为治疗血液疾病的宝贵资源。现实中出现了脐带血的主体是胎儿还是孕妇、妇产科医生和公共脐血库是否负有告知相对人脐血价值等事项的义务、脐带血与身体分离之后性质究其是物还是仍属身体一部分以及对脐带血中所含基因隐私如何进行保护等问题。脐血的采集、保存及管理应尽快纳入到法律规定中。

With the extension of the scientific research on stem cell domain, the umbilical cord blood has become one of the resources curing blood diseases. Some problems have arisen in reality, such as who is the owner of the umbilical cord blood, whether the accoucheur and public umbilical cord blood storeroom have informative obligation about the value of umbilical cord blood, after being apart from the body, whether the umbilical cord blood is still one part of the original body, and how to protect the genetic privacy of the umbilical cord blood. The collection?preservation and management of the umbilical cord blood should have been regulated by the law.