On her own web site, Smith does allow serious applicants to view donor pictures and profiles, but only after they call to secure a password for the site. The pictures are numbered to protect identities. I'm a boutique. We do not charge a fee to clients to view the site, but we do require a confidentiality agreement to ensure the privacy of our donors. For some, advertising raises the issue of the commodification of reproductive selection, which is comparable to shopping for other consumer goods, said Alexander Capron, USC associate law professor.
Religious beliefs complicate the issue by questioning the morality of egg donation.
The problem is the callousness used in order to guarantee success. Although women might believe that what they are doing is for the good of someone else, the ends don't justify the means, he said. Doing something good doesn't mean it's 'OK,' and there is something fundamentally wrong with ourselves if we think about it that way. Richard Paulson, an obstetrics and gynecology professor and the chief of the division of reproductive endocrinology, said that while most people are comfortable with eggs and sperm as biological products, he tries to address this issue by having a blank on the forms the recipients fill out that asks how many of the eggs they want inseminated. The rest, he said, are transferred back.