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more about #eggs more comments → jigglyball: I somehow qualified for the big bucks - a couple was looking for something specific, and I matched the profile (which is weird in itself), but I didn'... more » Evie Havok: Heh. I've seen so many ads for egg donors at all the university campuses I have visited. You know what they all had in common? All the couples who wer... more » la.donna.pietra: It never fails to amaze me how many men--like, all of the ones I talk to--assume that there's some magic procedure to just "catch" the monthly egg whe... more » morninggloria: While I applaud people who donate their eggs, the process doesn't appeal to me, even though I've got good genes that would probably rock the hell out ... more » taranwanderer: and the open-secret practice of couples going abroad for eggs Does "going abroad" mean finding people in other countries who still meet this extreme ... more » veronykah: I thought about it before, then the idea of people walking around that I am the BIOLOGICAL mother to really weirded me out. I don't want kids and real... more » sequined: Is the no travel rule even more strict than with blood donation? Because if so, all my dreams just went out the window. Reading the UWashington's cla... more » Flackette Goes Retro: My friend's sister donated eggs, and it was no walk in the park. She had to give herself daily injections of fertility drugs that made her gain weight... more » 18thfloor: Ok. I know a chick whose only source of income is from donating her eggs. She drinks, smokes, doesn't eat healthy, and has multiple sex partners. How ... more » Snowbunny: My philosophy teacher last spring tried to make a point about how dangerous to the human species it was that the women donating their eggs were mostly... more » Zombie Ms. Skittles: Is it true that the donor is responsible for the fees associated with the surgery and the drugs and such? Before my grandma got diabetes, I was consi... more » femme-bot: I hate when people tell me this is easy money. First of all, I'm not a farm (see: people who tell me my hair is so long I should donate it). Secondly,... more » BeckySharper: Yet another way in which biology is REALLY unfair to women. Dudes can wank into a cup to donate their gametes. We have to get our ovaries blown up by... more » Penny: There was a time I considered this. Then I realized that my depression and 2.9 GPA might not put me at the top of people's most desired list. more » AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope: Veruca Salt: Gooses! Geeses! I want my uterus to lay gold eggs for fees Mr. Salt: It will, sweetheart Veruca: At least a hundred a day ... I want to... more » -
#ova
For The Last Time: Donating Your Eggs Is Not "Easy Money"
As one clinic worker tells Nerve: "We're seeing people who might not otherwise do this but for their economic condition." More » -
#eggcase
New Genetic Test Could Spot Infertility Before It Starts
A new genetic test could predict whether women are at risk of early ovarian aging — and therefore reduced fertility — while they're still young enough to plan ahead. More » -
#butterisbetter
Child's Play: Time For Luh-unch!
The egg can be one of your very best friends, as Julia shows us in this vintage French Chef from 1964 (Mad Men time!), which features "eggs for elegance." More » -
#fertilityonice
Egg Freezing: A Good Backup, Or "Harmful To Feminism"?
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt writes in this week's Newsweek of her decision to freeze her eggs — and of critics who say the practice is bad for women. More » -
#wombraiders
Research Suggests Women May Produce Eggs As Adults
Scientists have found evidence that adult women have stem cells in their ovaries that let them generate more eggs, challenging the long-standing belief that women are born with a fixed number of ova. More » -
#artscrafts
Magical Mystery: Solved!
For sale, on Etsy: one dissected Easter Bunny. Seller says, "Apparently the Easter Bunny was killed in a tragic accident at a Peep factory and he donated his body to science." Fun and educational. [BoingBoing] -
#wtf
Disney Eggs: They're Eggs. By Disney.
We have rarely been as confused or disturbed by anything in our lives as we are by the new "Disney Eggs," which we discovered via a commercial break during the fourth hour of Today. More » -
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#wombraiders
American Egg Donors Report Negative Post-Procedure Feelings
A new study reports that though two-thirds of egg donors are satisfied with their experience, 14 percent reported negative feelings — and 12% reported mixed ones — following their procedures.
