Just got a press release from America’s oldest bioethics think tank, the Hastings Center, expressing apparent horror that fertility clinics will often pay donors who are students at leading universities more than $10,000 for their eggs. From the press release : Many egg donation agencies and private couples routinely exceed compensation recommendation limits for potential donors, a new study finds. From a sample of over 300 college newspapers, findings revealed that almost one-quarter of advertisements offered payment in excess of $10,000, a violation of guidelines issued by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). Compensation strongly correlated with average SAT score of the university’s students, according to the study published in The Hastings Center Report by researcher Aaron D.
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Shocking Revelation: Human Egg Buyers Pay What the Market Will Bear
