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Article: The price of eggs.(Health & Fitness)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2000
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In the largely unregulated market for human eggs, some women donate freely so the infertile might become mothers. Others collect tens of thousands of dollars from couples striving for the 'perfect' baby
Dawn, a 26-year-old chemist from the North suburbs, might or might not be a mother. She doesn't know. Chances are she'll never know.
That's the bargain Dawn made when she decided to become an egg donor.
She endured daily hormone injections, bloated ovaries and minor surgery - on three different occasions - so that strangers could turn her eggs into their children.
Would-be moms paid Dawn between $2,400 and $3,100 for her time and ...