[general_re]

Except for the moral question of using women as farm animals, by hyperstimulating their ovaries to produce enough eggs.

You don't have to "hyperstimulate" anyone's ovaries to produce more eggs - you were born with all the eggs you'll ever have, and you don't produce any more during your lifetime. Assuming you're a woman, that is, which seems a safe assumption from your handle ;)

All fertility drugs do is increase the rate at which they are released from the ovary. If you want an egg just to play with, you don't need to administer any drugs that I know of - all you have to do is go extract them directly from the ovary.

[nina0113]

Eggs just sitting in ovaries aren't ready yet - the ovaries have to be stimulated with hormones to "ripen" the eggs so they can be retrieved, for IVF or any similar procedure.

I'm Catholic, so IVF isn't an option for me, but many of the other women on my infertility mailing lists have gone through the stimulation & retrieval process - they tell me it is painful & debilitating. They take hormones daily to "ripen" as many eggs as possible, then have repeated ultrasounds to determine if the follicles are large enough to use, then give themselves a shot to force ovulation.

It's not going to be Northern American college girls doing that to themselves to pay for Spring Break - it's going to be Central American women willing to do anything to keep their children from starving.