Trading on the Female Body

Congressional Briefing on Risks to Women Egg donors sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and Culture

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• Egg
• donation
• eggsploitation
• infertility
• reproduction
• egg
• donors

[coolbeansmellon]

I would not be so quick to call this fantastic. Some good points are raised, but as an egg donor, I can tell you that some of this information false. By this video's own statistics, only 25 women have died. Think about how many women have donated! I hardly consider egg donors victims.

Many women would not able to have children, and research needs to be done on stem cells to further medical advances.

[jenniferlahl]

Only 25 women we know have died. There are many other deaths we are calling to be investigated. And there are many many more women who have been harmed, but fortunate enough not to have died. Remember, an egg donor is a healthy woman who undergoes real risks.

[MrWomanpower]

@nicolebernetta You are lying. The risks of egg donation are identical to the risks of doing an IVF with your own eggs. The stim drugs and retrieval process are exactly the same. You don't see tons of women dying from having IVF, even numerous IVFs. Those of us who have undergone IVF know that you are lying.

[MrWomanpower]

If these young women are too dumb to understand what they are doing, then they should quit polluting the human gene pool with their DNA. I do not feel sorry for them.They are adults and nobody is forcing them into this.

[asynkronos]

@nomorefunds Ordering children to fit one's specifications is morally repugnant. It's been done for many years in adoption. What if a child doesn't meet up to the adopters' expectations, or a genius child gets stuck with moronic adopters? It happens, believe me. Can the children sue for wrongful adoptions in such cases? I hope so. It's only fair.

[asynkronos]

Thanks for making this! Women have already been abused and exploited for decades by pseudo-professionals in the adoption industry, who are hiding massive civil and human rights violations committed against young mothers to get their babies for adoption. Many have PTSD and secondary infertility as a result of the trauma. Egg "donation" is no more ethical or humane. The frauds who exploit vulnerable women are making billions in profits at our and our children's tragic lifelong expense.

[nomorefunds]

@nicolebernetta Also, I am sure many blond, blue eyed women prefer to choose donor who look like them. The fact is that many people will choose donors with their same coloring. And I'm sure they want intelligence in a donor as well. Should they choose someone stupid to be the genetic donor for their child? Exactly what do you find so unethical about preferring intelligence in an egg or sperm donor? Explain, if you can.

[nomorefunds]

@nicolebernetta You are lying. The egg donation process is basically the same procedure that women undergo when they do IVF w/their own eggs - the same stim drugs are taken. I did several IVFs myself, there was no reported risk of "paralysis" (as you claim) or death. You are making this stuff up.

[nomorefunds]

@nicolebernetta So what if they get paid a lot of money?

[nicolebernetta]

Also, "vanillapie" some women do get paid $50,000 if they are blonde, blue-eyed and go to an ivy league school from certain IVF clinics.