Comment on I Donated My Eggs to Help Pay Off My Student Loans

robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• frogfruit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The process makes you extremely fertile and often comes with crazy mood swings. Plus you have to be marketable, which involves an interview process where you prove you’re healthy, attractive, not fat, free of mental/physical illness, and have good family history. They often want competitive GPA and IQ scores.

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  • Zeth0s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the most dystopian capitalistic eugenetics I have ever heard. I am happy it is illegal where I live

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  • paintbucketholder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Plus you have to be marketable, which involves an interview process where you prove you’re healthy, attractive, not fat, free of mental/physical illness, and have good family history.

    That has to be true for men as well, right?

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    • frogfruit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It depends on the facility, but typically the requirements are less stringent. Many just require a disease screening and questionnaire about hobbies and whatnot. Once approved, men get paid per sample collected. Typically, clients will review details about donors and select from available samples.

      For egg donation, women must first be approved by an agency, then selected by a client. Agencies commonly boast ~90% rejection rates as a selling point, then there’s no guarantee that one will ever be selected by a client. Some women may be interviewed by multiple families and never get selected or compensated.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They should open her mouth and check her teeth before they buy.

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