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Eggs going once, going twice, banned.
Thursday, September 4th, 2008So I know that this article is two years old, but this is the first time that I had even heard about a ban on selling human eggs. I found it slightly arbitrary that men can walk in, do the deed in a cup, and then walk out with cash, and no one even stops to ask if they felt they were given proper “patient” care. However, when a woman wants to sell her eggs, which have the same amount of chromosomes as sperm, and in my opinion are no more important than the little swimmers, she is told she could pay a fine of $150,000. That is, if she lives in the state of Arizona.
The main thing is that women have to inject hormones for four weeks then have a ten minute surgery where they remove the eggs, around ten sometimes twelve. You get a few stitches and walk out with at least $5,000. There is a small risk that the woman may become infertile, just like there is a rare risk that Advil will make your stomach bleed. If a woman knows the risk, shouldn’t she have the option to sell her eggs, just like we have the option to undergo plastic surgery, a surgery that doesn’t help anyone and carries greater health risks?
Students experience with egg donation
Advil side effects
I am by no means a feminist. I accept that men are better at some things than women, and that women are better at some things than men. That still doesn’t keep me from being a little chagrined at the fact that men can sell their baby making material, with only a few questions asked, and women can’t even donate without having to jump through hoops and watch instructional videos on the rare risks. If you want to sell, then expect to have to jump through hoops lit on fire over a tank of sharks and into a pit of poisonous snakes in any state other than Arizona.
There is no reason that a woman’s half of the zygote material has to be considered more precious than a man’s. It by no means needs to be better protected by an “ethics” that only restrain a woman from using her body the way she decides, especially when it’s to help other women conceive.
Tags: ethics, rights, women
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