South African Egg Donor Sent to India, Realizes Agency is Scamming Recipients
By Miranda Ward,
We Are Egg Donors
| 09. 22. 2014
Untitled Document
Martene is a South African egg donor and a member of We Are Egg Donors. She is an active egg donor who has traveled internationally for her egg donations. While the recent cycles have been smooth and positive, her first cycle was a different story.
This is the fourth story featured in our series Crossing Borders, in which we interview women who have traveled internationally to donate their eggs. Crossing Borders aims to illuminate the human experiences behind the complex and wide-varying laws that govern egg donation practices.
How did you become an international egg donor?
Martene
Martene: Let me start off by saying when I was recruited for the first time to become an egg donor, it wasn’t about the money. South African egg donors can be paid between 1200 and 2700 US dollars. Given everything that happened on this trip, the compensation didn’t even begin to cover everything I went through. I was only paid $1200.
I applied to be an egg donor in June 2012, when I had just turned 23 and my daughter was ten months... see more
Related Articles
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 12.01.2021
Robust regulations must be put in place to protect the welfare of farmed animals before genome-editing procedures are approved for commercial livestock, ethicists have warned.
Powerful gene-editing techniques have the potential to improve modern farming by making animals resistant to...
By Ben Spencer, The Times | 11.28.2021
IVF clinics selling ineffective “add-on” treatments face fines as part of the biggest shake-up of fertility laws in 30 years.
Julia Chain, the new chairwoman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, is seeking fundamental changes to the 1990 laws...
By Grace Browne, Wired UK | 11.25.2021
IN NOVEMBER 2019, Matt Hancock, then the United Kingdom’s health secretary, unveiled a lofty ambition: to sequence the genome of every baby in the country. It would usher in a “genomic revolution,” he said, with the future being “predictive, preventative...
By Vivien Marx, Nature Biotechnology | 11.24.2021
Three years after the ‘CRISPR babies’ burst into the public eye and caused outrage, their fate remains shrouded in secrecy amid swirls of rumors. Many people contacted for this story refused to speak about the babies, who are now purportedly...
