Female college students are turning to egg donation as a way to help pay for college costs and school loans, USA Today reports.
The payout for donating eggs can be huge for some women seeking to minimize their financial burdens but some people feel the decision should not just be about money. On average a woman can make anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000 from egg donations but the process is lengthy sometimes taking up to six months.
It's not as simple as walking into a clinic or donating center and providing your services. There are applications that need to be submitted, psychical and psychological screenings, medical tests and evaluations and sometimes a look at your family history. According to Healthy.ny.gov, the step involves a waiting game to see if you are matched with a woman who will receive the eggs.
The hefty payment then follows. As the website states, once the woman delivers the baby the child will "genetically be related to you" but the woman who received the eggs will be the birth mother and the legal mother. This might sound scary for some but for others in a financial bin, the process isn't that daunting to them.
Jasmine Stein, a graduate of Perdue University, donated her eggs last year and shared her experience by writing a blog for The Huffington Post, called "I Donated My Eggs For The Money - And I Don't Regret It."
She told USA Today that she received a lot of negative reactions form he decision but still didn't regret her decision.
"There's still some stigma around it," Stein told the newspaper adding that she does believe egg-donation is becoming more and more popular for girls in college.
Chelsea McDonald, a senior at Texas State University, also said she donated her eggs to help with her college loans.
"A lot of people think it's really weird, but I want people to know it's not," she told USA Today. "I'm doing something for them, and they are doing something for me. I have eggs that I'm not using, and if I can get paid for them, why not?"
One college student, Radha Inguva, a senior at American University in Washington D.C. said that after seeing all the fliers around her campus and the promise of a large sum of money, she was tempted to give egg donating a try but a summer internship experience changed her mind.
She said that she landed an internship at the National Organization for Women (NOW) and saw a documentary called "Eggsplotation," by The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network that showed some of the negative effects from donating eggs.
"I really feel like this is prostitution, because you're giving up a part of your sexual health for money, and that's not right," she told said.
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