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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused about how this is price-fixing if the ASRM simply issues recommendations?  There are no requirements.  Don't clinics and other DE agencies have the choice to follow or not follow those recommendations?  Obviously there are already organizations out there who've chosen not to comply with the recs or there wouldn't be ads in college newspapers offering $100K in compensation for select donors.[/quote]

Yes to all of this.  Thank you!

No one is coercing women into being egg donors.  It is totally voluntary, and if you talk to people who specialize in working w/ donors and recipients they will tell you that often the money is not the primary driver for donating.  Often women donate because they have personal experience/sympathy for women struggling with infertility, or they benefited personally from a less than traditional parenthood relationship, etc... Also, often people who donate have a fairly narcissistic streak so they believe they are genetically superior to others (see prior harvard non-blonde for an example of this kind of thinking) and are doing the world a favor.

There are people who will pay large chunks of money for eggs from individuals with traits they highly desire.  And there are people for whom a $5,000 fee at the end of a typically long struggle w/ infertility feels like a huge investment.  This isn't a one size fits all situation, but there can certainly be reasonable, ethical standards that also allow for individual choice, free will, and some level of market economy to be at play.[/quote]

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