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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that many well educated and comfortable women would donate their eggs or even carry a baby for close family or a very dear friend. Very few would be motivated by pure altruism to do this for strangers. A few would, but not many. In the UK they only allow altruistic donation and there aren’t many donors. 
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Our donor was from the UK, but we looked at many who had good intentions. There are fewer UK donors bc they can’t be anonymous. And there may be more limitations on how much money they can receive. I don’t think that for egg donors the receipt of money means they aren’t charitable. It’s a time consuming process and can be really uncomfortable. Much different than sperm donation. Ethical clinics and agencies try to screen out people who are only in it for money. It doesn’t always work, but they aren’t trying to take advantage of desperate people. Some donors aren’t planning to have kids, but want to help others, some work in the area so know a lot about it, some have connections to people who struggled with infertility. There are lots of reasons. I think it’s fine if getting a bit of extra money for the effort is what puts them over the edge to say yes. I agree with the above that few would want to go through the process if they weren’t getting any compensation.

And as far as I can tell - pretty much all of ART in the US is for the wealthy. I guess egg donation is a step up in cost from basic IVF, but it’s all pretty crazy
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