Posted on 02/27/2009 8:04:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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.
Fertility organizations across the country said there had been a growing interest. The Center for Egg Options in Illinois has seen a 40 percent increase in egg donor inquiries since the start of 2008.
New York City's Northeast Assisted Fertility Group said interest had doubled and the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine said it had received 10 percent more inquiries.
The Reproductive Science Center of New England, which does not deal directly with egg donors, said it had gone from no inquiries to now receiving several a month.
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Well, I did hear that more people are raising chickens.
Too late. Bummer.
I think when I was younger this would have seemed like an ok thing to do, but now, after having kids, I think it would bother me to know I might have children out there and not know what happened to them, or if they were ok.
Little tiny eggs would make very little itsy bitsy omlets.
Hard boiled?
Well, if they’re good hard-boiled I’LL take a dozen!
Scrambled?
Drawn by payments of up to $10,000,
Call the justice department! Call the National Organization for Men! This is blatant anti-man discrimination. I demand the same pay scale for my precious bodily fluids. < /sarc, almost>
How Stupid! You can buy eggs at the grocery store.
Are those from free range women?
You crack me up.
I agree.
My how times have changed! In the depression my grandmother sold eggs from chickens to supplement the family income. Today...Women sell ‘eggs’ from their wombs.
Very sad.
That is assuming the World wants American womens’ eggs....
Oh Lord,, ROFLMAO
One has to have a good laugh rather than going with the doom and gloom we get from that POS Barack.
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.
Denny’s has a new breakfast. The Octoslam. Eight eggs, no sausage, and the guy at the next table has to pay for it.
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