Chicago, IL – In these tough economic times, more and more women are turning to egg donation for extra cash.
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Here’s another sign of the tough economic times: Some clinics are reporting a surge in the number of women applying to donate eggs.
“Whenever the employment rate is down, we get more calls,” said Robin von Halle, president of Alternative Reproductive Resources, an agency in Chicago where inquiries from would-be egg donors are up 30% in recent weeks — to about 60 calls a day.
James Liu, a reproductive endocrinologist at University Hospitals, Case Medical Center, in Cleveland, said there is no waiting now for egg donors since his roster has swelled from the usual 4 to 17.
Andrew Vorzimer, an attorney who represents prospective parents in Los Angeles, says “Many of these women have college loans to pay off or they want to help buy a house or provide for their own kids’ education,” said Vorzimer, who is also CEO of Egg Donation Inc., a recruiting agency in Encino.
The going rate for egg donors generally is $3,000 to $8,000. But a few agencies advertise that they’ll pay much more for specific characteristics. One ad running in campus newspapers promises $25,000 for a donor who is “100% Jewish with … High SAT Scores… Attractive, at Healthy Body Weight and Free of Genetic Diseases.”
Good Idea 🙂 Never thought of such a way of making a living!
I wonder if Halacha permits this???
is this really important to print for the heimishe oilum?
what are the rules and regulations for infertility treatment?
in certain extenuating circumstances it might be permitted. contact a knowledgable rav about it.
the real mother of the child is the one that donates the egg.
“the real mother of the child is the one that donates the egg.”
Reply » excuse me #6 . I am the REAL mother to all my adopted children. I have raised them, educated them, given them a home with lots of love, paid their yeshiva tuition, made bar mitzva’s and weddings. My children also have a birth mother. The egg donor is simply an egg donor – she’s not even a birth mother – rather a biological mother of sorts. To my children, I am their mother. In the eyes of HKBH as well.
to #1
there is a machlkoet and therefore it would be reccomended for those without an alternative
to#5
the who carries the child to term is the mother at least that is the P’SAK we received
There is a halachic dispute regarding who is the halachic mother in the case of surrogate mothers, donated eggs, etc. Most poskim seem to view the mother who bore the pregnancy and became the birth mother as the halachic mother. Some poskim suggest one has to be stringent both ways, and consider the possibility that there are two halachic mothers. [Thus, for example, the product of such an implantation could not marry certain biological relatives of either of these ‘mothers.’]
Whether one can charge money for providing an egg is interesting.
As far as I know, there is no halachic barrier to that. Obviously, however, there exists the possibility that a person may be born and may be the genetic daughter of the egg donor. If that person grows up and wishes to marry the donor’s son, the possibility of halachic incest will occur.
All this is way beyond the scope of a post here.
“well obviously halacha doesnt permit it otherwise we’d all be walking around alot richer than we are….”
Actually, only the WOMEN would all be “walking around a lot richer”. I frankly can’t see any guy being able to get “rich” this way . . .
#14 , In fact, an adopted child is supposed to be called for an aliyah using his adopted father’s name, since that is his considered his father for purposes of kibud av.
As far as I know its not halachically okay to donate eggs, since youre putting your body through trauma and putting your future fertility in jeopardy for reasons that will not benefit you. As for getting pregnant through egg donation or surrogacy, those are very complicated shaylas. To date I dont know of a single chasidishe posek that will allow either of them; they are also a lot stricter on surrogacy. I know that there have been heterim to take donated eggs from one’s sister. The halachos for egg donation are that they have to be from a single, jewish donor. The woman who carries the baby becomes the halachic mother, but since the egg donor is also a quasi-mother she has to be single so it wont be mamzerus – the union of sperm with the egg of a married woman. For surrogacy, since the woman who carries the baby is the halachic mother, once again the surrogate has to be single and Jewish, to prevent mamzerus and unnecessary guir. It’s VERY complicated and a competent posek must be contacted prior to considering any of these high-tech infertility treatments.