Asian Egg Donors

The LA Times recently wrote an article about egg donation. As many articles on egg donation that were written by people that are not in the position of an infertile couple it focuses on the rare accordance is off well for the couples that are willing to shell out a whole lot of money for a perfect egg donor. In 1999 that was a fashion photographer who was selling donor egg from fashion models for 150,000 US dollar.

The desire to conceive a healthy and genetically well equipped child is nothing that should he morally judged. It is indeed a natural instinct in human beings. Today’s technology just makes possible more advanced methods of scientifically enhancing the probabilities of a healthy child. Think about it. People spend huge amounts of money on baby care products. They won’t their children to grow up to be healthy happy and successful part of our society. Paid egg donation just starts a little earlier — kind of pre-conceptiv child care.

Of course there are also strange variations of that. An example is where their walks to requests from a couple for an egg donor that resembles a certain fashion and runway model.

An egg donor supermarket where you can choose Naomi Campbell, Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein or Bill Gates eggs is a funny idea for a cartoon, but doesn’t help to raise awareness and understanding for the desire of couples to grow their family. It also doesn’t help in building a more centralized database off all available egg donors and requests for egg donors that match certain criteria.

Such a central database would not only help to facilitate faster matchmaking between egg donors and infertile couples and us reduce the waiting time enormously, it would also render unnecessary the huge amounts of money that can be consumed by the process of finding a befitting egg donor.

However, currently there is no such central database in the making. In fact in the US there isn’t even a centralized register or some kind of legislation when it comes to previous egg donations. In many European countries there are laws that egg donation agencies and egg donation clinics have to tear too. For example they have to keep records off who was in the egg donor of a certain child. This is important for medical reasons. Sometimes medical conditions arise that might be linked to a genetic predisposition. In these cases and with the advancement of science is knowing the medical history off an egg donor, even the medical history off grid estimation has taken place [keep in mind that most egg donors are very young - usually between 21 to 35 years old, and most medical conditions arise later in life].

Infertile couples looking for a perfect egg donors offering huge amounts of money — $50,000 to $100,000 — are not unusual to find these days.


If you open a student magazine or newspaper from an Ivy League university, and have a look at the classifieds section you can find advertisements like these quite easily.

The donor must meet all the perfect requirements. The egg donor should be a student off an Ivy League university or be a previous student of the Ivy League university.

The woman who donates her eggs should optimally have given birth in the past. Or she should have donated eggs in the past that resulted in a successful and healthy birth. Because egg donor agencies and infertile couples are looking for a woman that has a proven track record off fertile eggs.

They egg donor is required to be off certain stature including height and weight and body mass index.

Hair and eye color should match the infertile couples hair and eye color.

Racial properties also are off major importance. For example, an Asian couple would want an Asian egg donor. A Chinese infertile couple would want a Chinese egg donor, and Indian infertile couple would want and Indian egg donor, a Japanese infertile couple would want a Japanese chose five. I think you get the gist of it.

While some of these requirements are totally valid critics like to point out that this might be the beginning of genetic engineering. Because selecting genetic properties off and egg donor is actually manipulating the genetic pool that the children of a parent will pass on to their child. People are concerned about genetic engineering want to make sure that a scenario which Aldous Huxley draw in Brave New World won’t came in reality where rich people can afford to have superior genetic genes and poor people have to accept a poor or riskier genetic pool.

However from our perspective this is not a valid argument. Rich people can go for better health care, healthier food, and better living conditions which all are beneficial for healthy children. The impact paid egg donation has is just a part of the big picture.