Despite my desire to never have children of my own, I've decided to apply to be an egg donor so that couples who do want children (I'm hoping gay couples) can feel fulfilled through the use of my goods.
So anyways. I've been working on filling this application out. It's pretty intense. Like, 30 pages of personal and family history, a bunch of pictures, photocopies of my passport, birth certificate, social security card, all that jazz. It's given me a chance to find out more about my family than I thought I knew.
It's an interesting concept, though. Donating eggs. Well, I guess it's not really donating. It's more like selling eggs. Not only is it selling, but it's seriously profiting off of it. Part of me feels as though this is going against feminist ideals. I mean, it is tantamount to selling one's body.
I guess it just depends on what you think of these things. Like, prostitution. As someone who is on the side of decriminalizing prostitution and allowing women to do what they want with their bodies, egg donation (or selling) falls in line with that ideology. Right? It makes sense to me. This is rambling. I guess I'm just thinking out loud.
It's just an interesting juxtaposition. Women can sell their eggs for thousands of dollars, while men can sell their sperm for not nearly as much, but on the flip side, men can be sterilized for maybe a hundred dollars, while women have to pay hundreds to thousands of dollars for a similar procedure. Maybe it all evens out in the end? I'm not sure.
Reproductive justice. Sometimes it seems like such an oxymoron. At least for women.
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