Time for a Change.
... extremely dangerous health issues. Among the most serious are: arthralgia - severe joint pain, paresthesia - sensation of burning, tingling, alopecia - hair loss, asthenia - asthenia gravis hypophyseogenea - severe weakness due to loss of pituitary function, ecchymosis - a purplish patch caused by blood leaking into the skin, amnesia - disturbance in memory, amblyopia - dimness of vision, syncope - fainting, palpitations - forcible pulsation of the heart, bone pain, edema - swelling and hepatic function abnormality. Some other also include: dizziness, pain, nausea, dermatitis, pruritus - itching, urticaria - hives, vomiting, chest pain, weight increase, peripheral edema, abdominal pain, insomnia - inability to sleep and migraine (2-3). HCG can cause headaches, depression, and irritability. When a doctor extracts the eggs, it requires sticking a needle into the ovaries several times, so there is a chance of scaring the tissue or getting an infection, which means that it might be very difficult or impossible to have children later. More complications can also include: bleeding, puncture of bowel or bladder enlarged ovaries, and psychological implications. After realizing what women are willing to go through, we can see the real difference between women and men donors , “ for many (women) donors, a love of motherhood, commitment to family, and compassion for the infertile are key motivating factors. As with the sperm donation, this altruism may also tempted with narcissism and financial incentive” (Harkness 227). So why are women being criticized and men not? If men are such true donors and have absolutely no risks in doing so, why are they getting paid? They don’t go through the struggle and pain; frankly speaking they enjoy themselves in the process. It looks like women and men have different judgmental standards because in the end men are the heroes who help, and women are unethical creatures. Another issue would be, who is really profiting the most from egg donation? Even if the women gets paid $2,000 - 5,000 dollars per donation, the woman using donors’ services would pay $15,000-20,000 or more, plus the medical expenses and reasonable expenses of the donor. Who benefits from this money? Peggy Robin, notes that some “clinics even require that all unused, viable embryos be donated” (271). It means that now they can be used for all sorts of experiments and researches. Also “the patient consent form you must sign for IVF will tell you that any embryos produced but not implanted will become the property of the clinic, to be used as the clinic sees fit”(270). Meaning that now without the consent or knowledge of a donor, those embryos can be implanted to anybody who will pay for it. Now, that seems unethical. Usually, the donor and receiver meet to find out if the donor has any cons, not stated in medical history and personal profile. Also the donor finds out if the future child will be in good hands. But now the donor has no way of knowing if the family buying her embryos is violent, or has alcohol, mental or anger issues. Women are criticized and accused in making egg donation a commerce, and now we can see that it is a truly false assumption. They only play a little role in the whole process. Speaking about honest intentions, what does “drive the technology - a sincere interest to help infertile women and couples to become pregnant, or a furthering of commercial enterprise, medical research, and the technology itself ?”(Harkness 232). Not everybody thinks that donating ...