Sunday, May 27, 2012

The Economist | The market in human eggs: Underpaid ovaries

The Economist
The market in human eggs
An antitrust suit is filed against America's fertility clinics

FERTILITY assistance is a big and profitable business in America. Those needing help to conceive—infertile couples, older women, gay men using surrogate birth mothers—may be charged steep prices by the mostly privately owned clinics. In turn the clinics pay egg donors fees that often run into thousands of dollars. In contrast, an egg donor in Britain can legally be compensated by only the same amount as someone serving on jury duty—£61.28 (just under $100) a day.



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