Sex Cells: The Medical Market For Eggs And Sperm - Plot & Excerpts
Her ears perked up on hearing that financial compensation would be offered to those who are caring, healthy, and willing to help infertile couples have a child. Thinking about the tuition bill that was coming due next semester, she decided to call for more information. The men at Megan’s school hear a different kind of pitch. Flipping through the pages of the college newspaper, they might come across a cartoon drawing of sperm floating above a call for a few good men, those who are healthy, in their twenties or thirties, and in pursuit or possession of a university degree. The copy suggests that they put their sperm to work and “get paid for what you’re already doing.” These ads are for egg donors and sperm donors, women and men who are paid to provide sex cells to people who are using reproductive technologies to have children.Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the practice of clinically transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now part of a multi-billion dollar market.1 Hundreds of fertility clinics in the United States offer services ranging from artificial insemination to more complicated procedures such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), and they are dependent on a constant supply of sex cells for clients who do not have or cannot use their own eggs and sperm.
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