AdopTalk

As we know, women have been paid to provide eggs for the infertile for many years now.

Now, in questions is asking women to donate eggs for stem cell research. The debate is over such donors would be paid over and above reasonable expenses, such as those paid to volunteers in a drug study. Donating eggs requires spending 40 to 56 hours in medical offices, being interviewed, counseled and subjected to a surgical procedure, under sedation, that retrieves eggs from her body. Before that procedure, she takes hormone injections daily for more than a week to stimulate egg development.

I was recently contacted, for instance, and asked if I would participate in a study testing an arthritis drugs' effects on stomach ulcers. It involved screening and then a series of three endoscopies. The pay was $30 for the first visit, $100 for each endoscopy, and cab fare.

Yet egg "donors" for use to impregnate someone are paid $5-$10,0000 and more.

Feminists are reportedly divided on the issue of compensatory payment for egg donations.


One center has no position on paying women to provide eggs for fertility clinics, but holds that if women give eggs for stem cell research, they should only be reimbursed for expenses, including lost wages.

Isn't this ass backwards?

The "logic" is that is it more likely to produce a baby by using the eggs for that purpose than to find a cure through stem cell research. More likely...that's the only criteria??? Makes no sense to me.

AND, some feminists argue that poor women might be exploited! Gee whiz, ya' think? And yet far too few feminists are concerned about the exploitation of poor mothers for their live babies!

It seems a lot more noble to possibly help cure millions of people than to help one selfish woman have a child instead of adopting a child.

So what's so altruistic about creating babies...like the twins created by gay man in the previous story!