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E-PrinceAds promising more than $35,000 in compensation for egg donations show up in The Daily Princetonian every couple of days. Having seen the massive advertised payouts and the personal ads, I wondered: Did early feminists fight to keep the ...(back to the article)
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excellent article--after the number of jokes that have been made over the Prince ads, it's good to see someone examine the issue seriously.
this is an important issue http://www.columbiaspectator.com/eye/index.php/...
Basically what young women need to know is that the average donor receives between 3-5 thousand dollars. The commitment can take months from listing with an agency (or answering an ad) to the actual egg retrieval AND the entire procedure is not without risks. I am personally an advocate for egg donation but I don't agree with withholding information in order to sign up donors!
Please do your research!
Sharon LaMothe
Infertility Answers, Inc.
http://infertilityanswers.net/
http://infertilityanswers.typepad.com/surrogacy...
More broadly, though, I find it amusing that the likely egg recipients, wealthy careerist Manhattanites, are the same people who, in politics, loudly protest that there are no fundamental differences between any groups of people. But once the focus turns towards their own offspring, they suddenly become vicious Darwinists.
Unfortunately, this article is filled with alot of misinformation. I'm not sure what sort of ads this person is talking about, but as a potential recipient, I've done tons of research and have found, in the U.S., that almost all the agencies found are thorough in evaluating their donors, psychologically and physically, as well as provide family mental and physical health histories, etc. The recipients are informed of previous donations and results.
Women's reproduction freedom should never be questioned with misinformation and sketchy facts.
Re: "Babeless". What, exactly, would you consider as mis-information in this article? I have a few friends who have been egg donor recipients, and I myself have donated more than once for a friend of mine. Donors ARE put through screening processes - however, the care and attention given to donors before, during, and after the retrieval tends to be very scant. In the general process, it is not the donors who are on the top of everyone's concern list, I've seen Dr.'s who ignore donor's physical complaints, recipients who care only about number of eggs vs the donors health, etc. (I have been lucky with the relationship that I have with my recipient) There's nothing built into the current system that helps to protect donors legally, medically nor emotionally. I've also seen, many times, the possible medical consequences for donors down-played by Dr.'s, clinics, and I've even known some recipients who were largely unaware of how potentially dangerous this can be for a donor.
Other areas of medicine are regulated - ESPECIALLY tissue donation. Why should this be any less regulated? The regulations are there to protect both recipients and donors. Currently, the scales are tipped in favor for the clinics and recipients.