Cindy finds an ad offering fifty thousand dollars to a donor meeting certain requirements, and it is then that she truly understands just how much money can be made donating her eggs. (Mead #).
With all that money available and ready to be made by any healthy female willing, there just has to be strings attached - and there are. Harvesting your eggs is a risky business, and the first that comes to mind is of course the donor's health. Cindy does not experience smooth sailing when she donates; she feels menopausal symptoms as her ovaries shut down in preparation for stimulation [a normal feeling] and once "hyperstimulated," producing too many eggs to be sustained. Hyperstimulation, in rare instances, can actually lead to stroke. (Mead #) Egg donation is still a developing science, so the long-term effects are still not known. It may lead to ovarian scarring, harm the donor's own chances of future fertility, and wreck havoc on their menstrual cycles permanently. Due to all of this, some suggest that donors may be in fact paid too little. (Mead #).
The fee for egg donation still seems quite good to college donors right now, however. This has also lead to concerns that this desire for tuition money is leading to a glut of donors who are a little less than exemplary. Those who want eggs are understandably choosy, and services with offices are as well. The Internet, nevertheless, is finding a way to get around the prescreening process. This leads to donors who just want money and can creatively find ways around the system and requirements. Perhaps this is just something that naturally happens when someone so unique is wanted - someone willing to donate their eggs, and not want involvement in their children's lives. (Mead #) With the growing influence of the Internet and prices rising steadily, such strangeness is not likely not end soon. .
That peculiarity also extends to the courtroom.