Because the nation’s economy is shaky, an increasing number of women are donating their eggs for profit, according to a CNN story. An egg donor can get from $5,000 to $10,000. One woman in the article needed the money to pay for school. Women who smoke, have a body mass index above 30 or have a history of gynecologic problems are ineligible to donate. Everyone is hustling to make a buck.
Ladies, would you donate your eggs if you were cash-strapped? Would it be hard to have a mini-you running around that you couldn’t raise? Is it worth the hormone shots and health risks to earn some extra money? Is $10,000 too low for giving the world your egg?
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I currently do not have and children but would like to have them some day. I’m not sure if all my “girlie parts” for conceiveing and carrying a baby are all in working order because I’ve never been pregnant. However, I’ve always told myself that if things didn’t work out and I couldn’t have children I would be more then willing to adopt. Now I can’t imagine giving my eggs away and walking away knowing that there’s a child out there that has my DNA. It’s just not me. God didn’t intend for us to sell our eggs for cash!! Find some other way to do it. It my sound harsh but it just doesn’t seem like the natural thing to do. Although I know its very sad, not everyone was made to bare children.
Men have been selling sperm. So if you’re ok with that, you should be ok with women selling their eggs.
Now me, I’m not going through that procedure. I hate medical procedures, so it’s not worth it to me. Also, I disagree with the current trend that allows children to locate their bio parents. If I donated eggs, that’s what it is – a donation. Any child out of that would be the child of the actual parents, not me.
If it would help someone out and I could make money, yes. I don’t want kids, let someone else benefit from that!! hahaha Will they take them from 36 year olds?
Frugalista you never disappoint with your topics. Personally I know that I would never sell my eggs for money. I would have to find another way to make some cash. There really are so many alternatives out there you just have to search for them. And I don’t think $10,000 is enough money to sell eggs, I don’t think any price tag is enough some things are just priceless.
great question! I don’t want kids but I wouldn’t sell my eggs. As Just Wondering said, I wouldn’t feel right to know that someone with my DNA is there..then at some point, he/she’ll look up for me and ask me why did i abandon him/her…no thank you….
Nope. But for me it’s a health issue, first of all because I have a fairly messed up genetic history of disease (the quick rundown includes diabetes, cancer, multiple strokes, dementia, high blood pressure, and I could keep going) and secondly I do not like dinking around with my body’s functioning so repeated rounds of hormone shots are contraindicated.
I’ve heard that these things are dangerous, which is not surprising seeing how it has to be very invasive.
And I have no children, but hope to one day and can’t see myself giving away potential ones.
Umm… I’m not thinking this is not so much for me. I’d rather give back in a more productive way. If I don’t get married, I guess there won’t be any mini me’s running around. (Sorry to be so old fashioned, but I just refuse to do all that work by myself. Where is the fun in that?) And I’ll be darned if I give my eggs away. Some things are just priceless. Not to mention, if I got that cash strapped, I’d take a job as a barista at Starbucks (I’ve always wanted to learn how to make a latte.)
Hey Chicas, my editor made a good point: these women aren’t donating their eggs because they are getting cash. Women are SELLING their eggs for a profit.I’m changing the header
Mary Sue, your genetic history sounds like the cast at my family reunion!
I would not sell my eggs. Although, I’ve read about freezing eggs for use at a later date. It’s expensive – selling your eggs would be one way to afford it. Maybe a trade could be worked out. But nah, I wouldn’t sell them. And $5-10K is WAY too low!
Maybe it’s the money-related anxiety talking, but my initial response was, “Yeah, I’d do it!” I have several friends who want to have babies and can’t, and I feel real sympathy for them. I’m young. I’m healthy. And, as GLM mentioned, men donate sperm all the time and no one raises an eyebrow. It sounds like a win-win situation, right?
However, despite all the big talk now, I imagine that if I were ACTUALLY walking into a clinic to go through the procedure, I’d start feeling uneasy and unexpectedly protective of my eggs. I’d probably run back to my car and tell myself, as I drove home, and I’d dodged a bullet.
So, I guess that means I wouldn’t do it. But if somebody else wanted to, I wouldn’t stop them.
Some of you are missing an obvious point..these people need the money. What’s the big deal? I would do it if I was in financial distress. And I’m sure anyone would if they had to. Would you not finish school? Be homeless?
What? I can sell my sperm? Damn! To think of the thousands of dollars I have flushed down the toilet since I was a teen!
I want to sell a piece of myself. Who cares, sell my body. Take it. One Half Me. For Money. For Life. For Car Payment. For Clothes. For Me. Take it. I give it to You. For Money. Money for Me.
NO WAY!! As much as I’d hate to, I’d sell my body before I’d ever sell my eggs!
I am the mother of a healthy baby boy who is the light in my life, I also have the most wonderful and loving husband in the world.I don’t think I could do it on my own but with my husband’s support why not. I could not imagin trying to get pregnant and not being able to. I personaly don’t see them as my eggs I see them as someone elses future child. If they are willing to go to so much trouble just to carry and have a child of their own why shouldn’t I try and help and make some cash in the prosses. I would do if even if they didn’t pay me. I have a familly member who could never have children and her and her husband despritly wanted them, they did adopt but she wanted to experance the little kicks and movements and ultrasounds, stuff like that. I say all those who do it should get a big gold star. I am looking into how I can donate in the near future. I understand it’s not for everyone but don’t bad mouth it just say its not for me but hats off to those who are willing to share in giving life to a desparate family.
PLS someone tell me where I can find clinics that buy sperm in Florida area!!
All the places that buy blood too please! Bad money situation