<p>Someone I work with has been approached recently about donating an egg (she vaguely knows the married couple asking; they can't have kids for medical reasons). This girl is basically the ideal egg donor: 22, no family history of disease, healthy, pretty and slender with really nice features, intelligent and currently working on her PhD in neurobiology - basically the kind of gal you want to buy from if you need an egg. And like most egg donors in America, they're going to compensate her with money. She didn't tell me how much, but I know female donors typically get in the $4k-$10k range per batch of eggs at agencies. </p>
<p>The thing is, she turned them down because she felt uncomfortable with the idea (the harvesting procedure is painful, plus she felt weird about "selling an egg"). I agree with this - cause when you give away that egg, it's going to become a person and it's like your kid out there, that you sold for 5 grand. </p>
<p>But I know a lot of people are willing to do this. If you're 18-25, attractive, smart and fit the health requirements, it's easy money to give some eggs to an agency - would you do it?</p>
<p>If I were a woman, I don’t think I would have a problem donating my eggs; however, you said that the girl in question knows the couple? I don’t think I would do it in that case. While it’s nice to possibly insure that the child would have a good family, I don’t think I could do it and be around a child that is technically mine.</p>
<p>I disagree. An egg’s an egg. I don’t feel like I’m eating a baby chick every time I have scrambled eggs.</p>
<p>I would totally do it. $5000 is a lot of money, and the eggs can go for even more. The procedure is uncomfortable, sure. The only thing the be concerned about is that there are some inherent risks. Since I don’t want kids, I don’t care; your friend should keep that in mind.</p>
<p>Just to clarify - guys do not get paid this much for donating sperm. Giving sperm is easy - just jack off like you do every other night and give up lil’ Juniors :p</p>
<p>Women have to inject themselves repeatedly for months and the egg harvesting procedure is hard - that’s why we get paid a lot! </p>
<p>LOL son of opie, aww…baby gingers are ok. As long as they don’t grow up to look like clowns
yeah but in this case you’re the rooster! haha it’s different for women because I think there are health risks, plus it’s painful</p>
<p>I would not want to donate my sperm. Personally, it would be weird having a child that is “technically” mine out there. If my wife is not the one giving birth to it then no. Even though they will give me a lot of money, I will still have to decline it. Yes, I do feel bad for the couple who can’t have a kid but it really is my child.</p>
<p>I would definitely. I see ads for egg donors going up to $100k. Hello? Why would anyone say no to that? You’re helping a wonderful, sad infertile couple anyway lol.</p>
<p>^ Haha I always see those ads on Facebook, but when I click the link and see the parent’s list of guidelines, it’s usually like: Must be female, at least 5’9", very slender, blue or green eyes, C cup breasts, highly intelligent, very attractive, blahblah </p>
<p>translation: We can’t have kids but we want our little Betsy to look like a supermodel but get into Hahvard too! So we’re gonna pay 100 grand to create the perfect kid in a test tube! Never mind that tons of healthy kids out there are orphans, we don’t want to adopt their poor asses! :)</p>
<p>I would… I’m a female btw , my mom and every female in my family has done it, not because they were desperate for money they’re all… Wealthy on their own. I wouldn’t feel weird having a kid out there if I knew I was helping</p>
<p>I don’t think you’re really “helping” in all cases, to be honest. There are millions of orphans out there waiting to be adopted, including babies and toddlers…so personally if I couldn’t have kids for medical reasons, I would simply adopt a baby. Adoption is a complex process, but so is creating a test tube baby, and adoption isn’t physically painful and doesn’t require months of injections. Either way, the kids not biologically yours. </p>
<p>But I guess it’s a personal choice and some people prefer the petri dish way. </p>
<p>Haha if I donate 40 eggs, maybe I’ll have enough money to pay for med school. I’d also have 40 kids running around out there! :p</p>
<p>probably, I wish the procedure wouldn’t be that bad though. But then you are getting a couple grand. And with my debts it might be really likely.</p>
<p>^ No, you don’t have to carry it in all cases. Sometimes the egg donor ends up delivering the baby if that’s the arrangement, but they also have Egg and Sperm Donor agencies where you literally just sell your eggs/sperm for money, and that’s it - you don’t have to carry it and probably don’t find out what happens to the eggs you sold.</p>
<p>I wonder why selling eggs is ok but selling other body parts isn’t? Like there’s a whole black market for organs, and in many countries it’s illegal to sell eggs too…</p>
<p>^lol, cute picture. yeah, that makes very little sense, to me. i actually don’t know what the reasoning is behind not allowing the selling of organs. i would much rather do that if i was hard-up for cash, lol.</p>
<p>As long as I don’t have to carry around a fetus for nine months, I’d gladly donate my eggs. Money is nice and I’d feel semi-good about helping other people. It’s win-win. [Unfortunately, they probably won’t want my eggs.]</p>
<p>Yes I would. I’ve toyed with the idea - but my family is not nearly healthy enough for me to every be considered (many are fat and so have fat related health issues).</p>
<p>No, I would never donate eggs. I can’t wait to have children when I grow up, and I couldn’t bear the thought of having a child that was genetically mine and then having someone else raise it, possibly without my even knowing where my child is, etc. </p>
<p>I agree that adoption is a much better option. There are so many children out there who need homes, and adopting kids like that is one of the kindest things a person could do in life, imo. I suspect that some people choose to purchase eggs and sperm instead for a few reasons:
1.) Some couples may want to implant the embryo in the adoptive mother’s uterus to get the pregnancy “experience” or to make them feel more like the baby is “theirs.”
2.) As implied by the ads mentioned above, some parents want to custom-design their children (which is a very disturbing thought)</p>
<p>In any case, at least I’ll never have to worry about anyone wanting my eggs. Nowhere near pretty enough. :P</p>
<p>I thought the reason that selling organs was illegal was that it encourages people to murder to get organs to sell, or that it allows people without medical licenses to attempt procedures they shouldn’t be doing. Am I totally off base here?</p>
<p>Lol, this topic reminds me of that Will and Grace episode where Jack’s son shows up and wants to get to know him. Apparently Jack had donated sperm and hadn’t realized he had a kid. Has anyone seen this episode? I think there was also one where a girl friend of Will’s wanted him to give her sperm, and Grace was all upset about it because she viewed Will as her “backup sperm” in case she never found a husband. XD I love that show.</p>
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