[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.

[general_re]

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.

Even if I accept that to be true, which I don't...so what? Do you object when people donate parts of themselves upon their death in order to further medical science? Do you obect when people donate organs in order to save the lives of others? Why should you object if they part with bits they neither need or want while they are still living? We're not talking about viable human embryos, so this is not like abortion where we should consider the interests of some other human being - and since that argument is now right out the window, what business is it of yours what someone else chooses to do with their own body?