Karen was quite frank about the ethics or lack thereof of the fertility industry. There s a serious lack of integrity in some clinics. Karen told me about two California women who were egg donors. One donated 17 times to the same clinic, via the same doctor. Even scarier was the 22 year old woman, in the midst of filing for bankruptcy, who decided to start an egg donor center.
Quick money is the worst reason to enter the infertility business.
Though Karen and I likely disagree on some of the moral issues surrounding surrogacy and egg donation, she was very clear that her center will not take college women whose primary motivation for donation is money, something I applaud. They look primarily for 21- 35 year old women who are already mothers and not on government assistance. From Hagar to Horrible Karen s right. Egg donors can t lose sight of the fact that children conceived with their help are partly them. I thought about that a lot when my doctor asked me to donate eggs to a patient he called my double.