In hard times, more U.S. women try to sell their eggs

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drawn by payments of up to $10,000, an increasing number of women are offering to sell their eggs at U.S. fertility clinics as a way to make money amid the financial crisis.

Nicole Hodges, a 23-year-old actress in New York City who has been out of work since November, says she has decided to sell her eggs because she desperately needs cash.

"I'm still paying off college. I have credit card bills and, you know, rent in New York is so expensive," Hodges, who has been accepted as donor and is waiting to be chosen by a couple, told Reuters Television.

Hodges said there was also some satisfaction in helping an infertile couple have a child. "Yes, the money is very nice, but it's nice to be able to let a mother who wants to be a mother be a mother," she said.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE51Q3LB20090227

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First the conservatives cause all the abortions over the last thirty years with their Ronald Reagan economy. Now they've cause a great depression and women are selling off their eggs.

[Captain Hilts]

1. The ads are for tall, blond, Ivy-League educated women. nt

[BonnieJW]

2. I had to talk one of my daughters out of doing this.

I told her she would have to undergo massive amounts of hormone treatment, which may or may not cause cancer later on. Also, women are born with all the eggs they will ever have; they don't make more.

[lamp_shade]

3. Shucks. I don't have any left. n/t

[tanyev]

4. Oh, good lord. A freeper philospher weighs in:

That’s sick. Somewhere there will be a baby with her genetic material, and she won’t know the baby and won’t care. This is what liberalism has brought us.


No, dipshit, that's what the depression brought on by your "conservative" economic policies has brought us.



If you dare:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195479/posts

[kimmerspixelated]

5. Oh, I thought this was about selling chicken eggs!

You know, for extra money, and to provide breakfast! My Bad!

[PassingFair]

6. I cry bullshit on this article.

This is conservative propaganda to fight
against stem cell research.

I heard this crap line here in Michigan
when stem cell research was on the ballot,
and statistics indicated that in areas where
stem cell research was legal, there was no
spike in women "selling off their eggs".