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For the last eight years, it's been illegal in Canada to pay for human eggs or sperm. But the practice continues nonetheless, with Canadian women earning good money donating their eggs to couples desperate for children.
And all of this goes on, say critics, because no one is enforcing the law.
CTV News met with a Canadian university student who recently made $5,000 for selling her eggs. The woman, who wants to remain anonymous, says she did it in part to help a desperate couple, but also to help pay her tuition.
"I thought that would be a good way to earn the money that I needed," she told us.
The woman says she heard through a friend about an agency here in Canada that matches young women who want to donate their eggs with couples from around the world who want babies. She says she knows a number of other women who have done the same.
In order to become an egg donor, the woman injected herself for a month with prescription fertility drugs. Then, when she was just...
And all of this goes on, say critics, because no one is enforcing the law.
CTV News met with a Canadian university student who recently made $5,000 for selling her eggs. The woman, who wants to remain anonymous, says she did it in part to help a desperate couple, but also to help pay her tuition.
"I thought that would be a good way to earn the money that I needed," she told us.
The woman says she heard through a friend about an agency here in Canada that matches young women who want to donate their eggs with couples from around the world who want babies. She says she knows a number of other women who have done the same.
In order to become an egg donor, the woman injected herself for a month with prescription fertility drugs. Then, when she was just...