Need Money? Got Eggs?

**lynnzop**[$] · #1 08-06-2008, 04:21 PM

Nope, not what you might be thinking........

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An egg donor is typically compensated between $5,000 and $10,000. Experts say that while most women donate out of desire to help infertile couples, the financial allure is real.

Okay, but is that over and above the medical costs incurred by donating? I'd have to think it's not cheap to have all those procedures done.

*emeleel* · #2 08-06-2008, 04:47 PM

I thought you didn't have to pay anything for the procedures AND you got the money for your time and trouble. So you're not incurring any expenses yourself. That's the way I've always understood the procedure.

Unless, of course, it happens to be a case of doing the procedures for your own benefit, then donating any extra eggs. In that case you'd be paying for it yourself, of course.

eris esoteric · #3 08-06-2008, 07:14 PM

I'd rather sell my hair, personally. But then I've got that whole thing about not wanting to reproduce because I don't want to pass on the double-whammy depression genes my parents gave me.

realtraveller · #4 08-06-2008, 08:16 PM

I've seen ads in college newspapers seeking eggs. If you have high grades/high SAT scores, are tall, beautiful, athletic, no medical issues, etc. you can get as high as $40,000. Men have been earning college money by sperm donations for years. I suppose if you want to go through the medications/procedures involved, you could get a lot of tuition money this way.

**lynnzop**[$] · #5 08-06-2008, 08:52 PM

Sorry to interrupt any serious discussion, but this just popped in my head:

You got your money for eggs
And the chicks are free

Back to discussion.

Melanie, I didn't know there weren't any charges for the donor. Then it makes sense, I guess, although personally, I'd rather stay away from selling body parts to pay off a student loan.

magenta321 · #6 08-06-2008, 11:20 PM

This surprises you? In the late 1990s I was somewat considering it, but they were paying $25,000 at the time. Now I'd say "are you nuts?!" but when I was 18ish and didn't have the same maturity I have now... it seemed almost tempting.

*emeleel* · #7 08-06-2008, 11:29 PM

I wouldn't think of it so much as selling off body parts, but do you know how they stimulate ovulation? Shots in the stomach. Usually more than once a day. You'd have to pay me a LOT of moolah to get me to do that for profit!

magenta321 · #8 08-06-2008, 11:40 PM

I think of it like selling your DNA. I don't want mini-mes running around that I didn't make. I want to raise my children, not let someone else.

I could be paid to get shots in my belly... it would be a high price, but I could be sold on it. I wouldn't be sold on selling my DNA (my children). Just me. I'm not knocking a woman who sees it differently than I see it.

phoenixx · #9 08-06-2008, 11:43 PM

Meh. If they took overweight people I'd be on this in a flash to store up money for this winter. I don't get what the big whoop is.

frazzledspice · #10 08-08-2008, 09:12 PM

It would be a lot less time consuming and painful than being a surrogate mother.

But I really do believe that the megadoses of hormones that you'd have to take to guarantee there would be a number of eggs to harvest at the time of ovulation might come back to haunt you later in the form of breast, uterine, or ovarian cancer.

I've known a few ladies with exceptionally healthy lifestyles who've developed these cancers--their one common denominator being they had all had long term treatments for infertility.

In addition, if you have a tendency towards ovarian cysts (as my teenage DD who read this in an entertainment newspaper and thought it was a really cool idea does) you would be playing with fire.

And that's what I told her.

**slick4591**[$] · #11 08-11-2008, 01:30 PM

ABC News: Economy Getting You Down? Donate Eggs

**theworm**[$] · #12 08-11-2008, 02:43 PM

I'm leaning more towards Leslie on this one. I'm not interested in donating, and I don't really like the idea that people are donating for the cash incentive, but donating eggs is a way to help another family. Everyone thinks its great when a person steps up for bone marrow testing, or donates a kidney to another person. Those are usually life saving. This isn't life saving, but a way to offer another family a way to have a baby. I don't want to get this thread on the whole adoption vs. extra-ordinary methods discussion, but I don't think it's wrong for someone to donate eggs and be compensated for it. At the same time, I don't like the idea of them advertising at colleges - although, I guess people want young and healthy eggs......

Wormie - who didn't read this thread till today because I thought it had something to do with chickens.

**lynnzop**[$] · #13 08-11-2008, 02:54 PM

And we KNOW where chicken eggs come from.........

When I think of it in terms of donating, like plasma or blood, it's less

and I'm with you on that. Guys have been donating sperm and getting paid for it for years, why shouldn't women do the same?

**theworm**[$] · #14 08-11-2008, 11:00 PM

Chicken eggs come from chicken butt - just like chicken doodie.

frazzledspice · #15 08-12-2008, 09:55 PM

Yes, colleges have people who are young, healthy, and in need of money....

There are some people who would not donate eggs for in vitro fertilization because some of the fertilized eggs would never be implanted (and, in their belief system, would be 'aborted.')

I would venture to guess that there are as many women who would never donate their eggs to be used in the potential destruction of their offspring as women who would donate their eggs to help an infertile couple (who plans on destroying some of their future offspring.)

They are on two ends of the polarized society we see in America today.