An internet service which claims to be the first to offer a global database of human eggs for sale to infertile women has been launched in Britain.
The website, www.WomanNotIncluded.com, offers eggs to women prepared to pay a registration fee, and then extra for searches of the database and consequent introductions. The service is an offshoot of an existing website, www.ManNotIncluded.com, which supplies mail order sperm to single women and lesbian couples, who have found clinics resistant to helping them find donors.
Although both services are legal, some groups question whether profiting from the sale of eggs and sperm is morally acceptable. The supply of eggs is a more complicated affair than the supply of sperm, since donors normally require hormone injections to promote the multiple production of eggs, and then an operation to remove them.
Subscribers will pay an initial £145 and then between £600 and £1,200 for each match with a potential donor. Donors register for free. Arrangements are then made for the woman to anonymously donate her eggs at a fertility clinic where screening, IVF and implantation take place, all at extra cost to the recipient.
Well when you sell your "egg" and that "egg" later develops into a child isn't that technically your child? In other words you sell your child to them? Based on this I don't think its morally acceptable, it just doesn't sound right!
Faisal, do you find contraception as morally reprehensible as the practice of people selling their eggs (or sperm to sperm banks)? After all contraception methods (even azl) kills off what these people are selling.
Let me make it clear that I’m not advocating the selling of eggs or sperm, just continuing this discussion.
Im guessing the more likely analogy, utd, would be adoption. those who anonymously offer their children for adoption and those who accept them as family.
Could someone tell me exactly where the boundary of moral reprehensibility lies going from adopted children to surrogate motherhood to sperm/egg donation?
if the issue is paternity, then IMO its an issue only for the more conservative Muslim world. As far as amreeka et all go, purity in paternity ceased to be a (significant) consideration years ago.
as far as we go.. it doesnt really matter to us.. nor is it much different from for example.. surrogate motherhood.
I actually would advocate selling of eggs/sperm. Even though sperm gets generated by males on demand. Ovum are a finite number in a female (approx 450,000 in an average human female’s lifetime***), how many of those eggs get fertilized? And how many of those fertilized eggs get to be born.
And consider the couples who cannot have children and their feelings. I know of a few and when my daughter was born I felt like keeping the news hidden from them so as not to hurt their feelings. And as underthedome mentioned, with the increased use of contraception even the times when there could a fertilization of the ovum, its wasted away.
well i guess under certain circumstances it's okay, for example if someone can't have a child or it's very difficult for them where as it can cause them to have a problem, then i guess selling it to them might not be as bad as just doing it for the heck of it and just to make money off of it. no?
well i guess under certain circumstances it’s okay, for example if someone can’t have a child or it’s very difficult for them where as it can cause them to have a problem, then i guess selling it to them might not be as bad as just doing it for the heck of it and just to make money off of it. no?
I remember in highschool there was a kid in our class, a very popular boy, who used to sell his sperm to the sperm banks n all just to make some money, hmm i thought it was really wierd
well i guess under certain circumstances it’s okay, for example if someone can’t have a child or it’s very difficult for them where as it can cause them to have a problem, then i guess selling it to them might not be as bad as just doing it for the heck of it and just to make money off of it. no?
I remember in highschool there was a kid in our class, a very popular boy, who used to sell his sperm to the sperm banks n all just to make some money, hmm i thought it was really wierd
i dint’ do it on purpose, shees