May 3, 2010
by Exie Frazier | Staff Writer
My perception of family was limited to a mother and father and children.
Recently, I realized that families aren’t just made up of blood or marital relationships. Family includes the relationships with people that make them worth more than money. Paying money to gain a family member is a choice everyone has a right to make. Giving up a part of your body for money, so someone can build their family, is also a choice every person has a right to make. Many people aren’t physically or biologically able to create their own family. One option is In Vitro fertilization, which requires the donation of eggs from a woman outside the immediate family.
Advertisements for specific egg donors were placed in more than three notable college newspapers such as Yale Daily News and the Harvard Crimson, offers $30,000 or more in compensation of a woman’s ova. Compensation brings concerns that the human body will become a commodity.
One can’t place a monetary value on a human life, but one can place a value on the medical procedures one undergoes to enable someone else to build their versions of family. Women shouldn’t have to face criticism for doing what she chooses to do to her own body.
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine issued guidelines, which shuns compensation exceeding $5,000. These guidelines restrict people from finding
more acceptable donors and are the reason why many women donate are the high compensation rates. High compensation fees ensure satisfaction. Whoever donates her eggs is satisfied and those who received their donated egg can proceed with In Vitro fertilization to begin the construction of their family.
Another concern is that the specific age range and IQ levels may be discriminatory towards those not within the ranges given, which varies ad to ad. Women over 40 years of age are at higher risk towards menopause, at which time women stop producing ova. The specifications seem reasonable to include women who’re younger and more fertile and exclude women who’re older and less fertile. The assumption that a person’s IQ can raise a compensation rate is also seems reasonable, as increasing the chance the child would be smarter is a luxury in any child making process.
Many Americans will pay everything to have someone do their dirty job. Why shouldn’t citizens demand money to do something good for someone else, which takes away from them physically, and gain financially?
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WOW!!! I could only imagaine what I could do with 30k if I were a woman and somebody would pay that much for my eggs, I would do it. I would pay for my education with it. It has been said that the “love of money” is the root of all evil. Many people have paid crazy amounts of money for things that were (to some) worthless.
As our socity changes with the advancements in medecine and technology money will alter many things. In an age where “designer babies” seems to becoming a more and more a reality the selling of one’s egges is a segue into this direction. It will be met with opposition but it is still the right of that doner.
Freedoms! Who and to what level does the public and goverment, really allow us to do what we want. If someone has the money to pay that amount for a womans eggs, then let them pay………attending a private institution is not cheap…so let her sell her eggs…that way she can pay some of her school fees…..she can make a flyer that reads “Eggs for Education”
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