How Much Are Your Eggs Worth?

So the other day i was watching The View. Now, I know what you are all saying, why is a college-age girl watching that show? Well, cut me a little slack here…With my abundance of free-time while in limbo between graduation and a real life, I have been able to embrace morning television. Don’t hate.

By Abby

Anyways, the chatty ladies were discussing the topic of egg donation and how many college girls are taking part in this without knowing what it really entails. And they mentioned how much girls are being paid for primo eggs: anywhere from $5,000 to $50,000, or sometimes more, depending on how wealthy the couple is and what kind of traits the girl might have.

In short, the most attractive, smart, or athletic college girl with the least amount of disease in her genes will be paid the most for her eggs. Thousands of dollars is a TON of money for a broke college student facing impending financial responsibilities and debts.

Seems like a sweet deal right? Well, before you all go selling your eggs, you might want to pay attention to these facts about egg donation:

1. Unlike sperm donation for guys, it is NOT a fun process! You don’t get to go pleasure yourself for a half hour in a room with porno magazines and poof it is over. “Egg donation takes the donor some 56 hours and includes a battery of tests, ultrasound, self-administered injections, and retrieval.”

2. A needle is stuck in your vagina! Yes, it’s true, and if that’s not a big enough reason to forgo egg donation, then I don’t know what is. “Once the eggs are mature the donor receives an injection that triggers ovulation. Thirty-six hours later, the eggs are retrieved through the vagina with an ultrasound-guided needle.”

3. It may leave you infertile! There has been recent debate as to the long term effects on a college girl’s future fertility from egg donation. “The college girl who thinks that earning some quick cash selling her eggs may have to deal with an inconvenient truth when she finds herself prematurely infertile.”

Although the monetary benefits of egg donation might seem appealing at first, I would advise any college girl to think long and hard about what she is really getting herself into. After reading up on it, I’m not sure that any amount of money is worth the pain or potential risks. Not to mention the fact that a child with your DNA would be running around somewhere and you would technically be their biological mother. Creepy.