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Old 10-17-2007, 02:19 PM   #31
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No, it's not. Certainly, egg donors do get paid (This center pay donors $5000-$7000, $750 up front, and have travel and insurance costs paid for by the "intended parents". However, this site is referring to IVF-intended eggs. I can't find any mention of what a bioresearch company would pay), and it definitely pays better than a lot of low-income jobs. It's the exchange of money for a service/good, just like every other job (including prostitution). There are no pimps and (most likely) no drug problems that would be forcing those women to donate their eggs.

And I don't see anyone arguing over whether sperm donors are "exploited" here. It takes two gametes to make a blastocyst.
It is illegal for a bioresearch company to buy a fertilized egg. There is only one method for obtaining them and that is when people who have had embryos frozen stop paying the upkeep fee and donate them to research rather than paying the disposal fee.

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Old 10-17-2007, 02:30 PM   #32
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It is illegal for a bioresearch company to buy a fertilized egg. There is only one method for obtaining them and that is when people who have had embryos frozen stop paying the upkeep fee and donate them to research rather than paying the disposal fee.
key word there. I don't think it's illegal to buy eggs.
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Old 10-17-2007, 02:38 PM   #33
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key word there. I don't think it's illegal to buy eggs.
... I'm not sure, I'll research it after i get off work tonight.
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