Art Caplan discusses ethical issues associated with donating eggs to help afford 'freezing one's eggs' and the need for counseling to avoid exploitation.
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I'm 32; maybe I should freeze my eggs now, as it's better than to try freezing them when I'm 35 or 37. The potency may be far less. The student resident quickly found out that there were companies near her who would do egg freezing but would cut a deal if she agreed to take drugs to super-ovulate, make a large number of eggs, and they would be procured if she agreed to give half of them to other women who needed eggs for their infertility treatment. She could keep half and she could get very discounted treatment of egg freezing.
But in today's day and age with 23andMe, Ancestry, and better genetic testing, there's a pretty good likelihood that somebody is going to find out that the person they thought was their biological mom isn't, and they have someone out there who was the person who, in this case, donated an egg. The other big issue is that we don't know that egg freezing is going to work for her until someone tries to use those eggs. She may have her own infertility problem not due to age but to other things. Approximately 8%-9% of couples do have infertility problems, sometimes related to gametes. She may never get a partner. Maybe she doesn't want to use these eggs on her own as a single mom. All of these issues have to be talked through.
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