Commercialization of Gametes

"Brainy Beauties Finance College by Selling Their Eggs" is the headline of one Internet source taken from a bulletin board at a prestigious college. College students are being offered thousands of dollars to donate eggs to infertile couples due to their brains and beauty. Some women are making this procedure, which can be extremely painful, a habit in order to finance their college education. Some people, especially athletes, brilliant scientists, models, singers, and actors/actresses, are being paid in sums of $150,000 or more for donating sperm or eggs to couples who cannot conceive on their own!
This is wrong for a number of reasons.…