Having found that women are generally uninterested in going through a risky procurement procedure so scientists can use their eggs for cloning and embryonic stem cell research experiments, researchers are now calling for a repeal of state laws that currently ban financial payments for eggs according to the journal Nature.
To give a picture of how dry the applicant pool is, Kevin Eggan and Douglas Melton of Harvard University’s Stem Cell Institute spent two years and $100,000 on local advertising and could only secure a single egg donor – someone with ties to Harvard.
Because fertility clinics are allowed to pay for eggs, those women who had expressed interest in the Harvard program decided that they would rather be paid than donate. So researchers want the right to compete.
What most people don’t realize is what exactly a woman has to go through to donate eggs for any purpose. First, the woman must take fertility drugs to overstimulate their ovaries. Instead of the usual 1-2 eggs being released at a time, 10-15 eggs will be released. Periodic monitoring must take place to determine when the eggs will ripen. At the time of release, the woman must undergo laparoscopic surgery to obtain them. Side effects of the procedure range from mild discomfort to…infertility.
These researchers are willing to gamble on a young lady’s future ability to bear children in their frenetic quest for a supply of eggs just so they can create human life and then destroy it. Of course, the top candidates for this form of exploitation will be poor women looking for a quick way to make some cash.
If researchers fail at their effort to liberalize state laws on this issue, they may turn overseas where the pool of available women for exploitation is far larger and presumably less expensive to buy off. Even with the recent advances in stem cell research that opens the door to creating embryonic stem cells without the need to create and destroy embryos, it seems nothing will detour these scientists who have dedicated their careers to healing some by destroying others. It just may take greasing the wheels of destruction with a little cash, that’s all.
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I am not well read in this subject, however I will tell you that the end result in this kind of practice is worse than you could ever know.
My daughter had her system manipulated twice to produce eggs to sell while she was in school.
The health issues that followed proved to be almost deadly for her.
If she had not done this and did not have a bad doctor, she would still be healthy.
It messed up her body and mind. She is basically suffering from emotional and mental illness now.
It also caused problems for the whole family who did not support selling part of the family.
That isn’t a big issue with me as the state of my daughter now.
There are more side-effects other than just infertility at hand with selling your eggs.
Please adopt if you want children.
this is a descision everyone needs to make for themselves . just because your young daughter could not handle the consequences of selling her eggs does not mean other woman cant . my eggs have brought happiness to me in allowing me to birth 4 healthy children with no complications . for me to have the opportunity to give someone else that same benefit , who before was unable to feel the joy of pregnancy and childbirth , that is what is important. i would want the help offered to me if i was not able to produce a child on my own.
I am a 22 year old college student and
I would be happy to SELL my eggs for research.
Actually, I would rather them be used for the advancement of science than to make a baby.
I would not DONATE them – simply because fertility clinics WOULD pay for them and time = money etc etc.
I need to get paid like everyone else.
Research needs to be done. I’m sick of everyone boohooing over stem cells. Keyword = CELLS
They cannot be a baby until I see that they can – as far as I am concerned.
If after donating the eggs it turned out I was infertile – Guess what?
I WOULD ADOPT !
I have three son’s with autism and would be happy to sell my eggs for research to see if anyone can eventually find out why they have this disability. If my eggs can help future families so be it. Anyone know where I can let me know tks.
I would sell them. I have three son’s with autism and if it could help others in the future, then I’m very willing too.
Let me know if anyone knows where I can sell them to help with research.
I WOULD DEFFINITLY SELL MY EGGS AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE OR HOW I CAN