Money Is Not Enough to Get an Egg

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Do you think that the amount of money you pay shows how much you care? If you spend lots of money on something, does it mean that you really love it for the entire life? Maybe for the short-term, it could be the most precious object but it won’t last forever, especially for rich. If a person can afford everything without hesitating or suffering, then this person might think everything is easy to get and is not very precious. Nowadays many couples are infertile and are looking for egg donors to have children. While some people are desperate for the eggs, other people think this process is immoral because it is involved with living things. It is a moral dilemma to buy and sell the egg, and both two are equally problematic since it is related to the money. Although some infertile couples really want eggs to make children, it is unethical to sell or buy the egg if the egg is objectified with money and unnecessary qualification because the egg donation requires a huge responsibility.
It is a moral dilemma when people focus on the egg’s quality because it gives a parental irresponsibility by falling short of their expectation of the baby. In Jessica Cohen’s article, “Grade A: The Market for a Yale Woman’s Eggs,” she says that David and Michelle were looking for “an Ivy League donor” who received a minimum SAT score of 1500, and who is “over five feet five [and] Jewish heritage” (190). David and Michelle advertised in the Yale Daily News that they need a perfect egg donor for $25,000. They didn’t state about the health in their requirements for a right egg, but rather asked about education and appearance. Also on the application on Egg Donation’s Web site is very long with full of unnecessary questions such as “what two of my favorite...

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...fertile people really want to have a baby, they should not look for the perfect egg. The money is not the necessary thing to include in the egg donation. Egg sellers can donate their egg without profit only if they want to help infertile people. Egg buyers can get any one egg from the donated eggs, so they cannot choose the best egg. Egg is a first step to develop as an embryo. It is a living being that becomes a human. People should treat an egg properly because it has a right to be treated equally and preciously. If people objectify an egg, they don’t deserve a baby, and they cannot become good parents. Egg donors also do not deserve money and cannot be a good donor if they don’t treat egg rightly. Good donors have a responsibility to have a right purpose of donating their eggs. Good parents have a responsibility to take care of an egg as a precious living thing.

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