The Hunt For Golden Egg Analysis

The article “The Hunt for Golden Eggs” by Brooke Lea Foster discusses donating eggs to help couples have children. The article briefly summarized how helpful and useful egg donors are to IVF patients and how they are truly “heroes” to those who cannot use their own eggs and suffer from infertility issues. Conception was once an easy task, but since 1980, in vitro fertilization (IVF) gives a unique and additional option to allow couples to have children who are “half” their own regardless of infertility in the mother. In exchange for a woman donating her eggs, she is given a substantial payment. To summarize the information from this article, the article begins by telling Melissa’s story. Melissa, also known as Donor 811, agreed to donate
More specifically, the article gave a great overview of varying opinions ranging from topics of curiosity and legalities. From a critical assessment standpoint, this article did a great job of accurately displaying all sides and options. I also thought that the layout of this article was appealing, easy to follow, and engaging. Clearly, the information was accurate but it was also presented in a manner that was easy to understand and captivating. My only criticism of the article was that the stories seemed to jump around. By this, I mean that it was hard to follow which person matched to each story when they are mentioned throughout the entire article. I believe that it would be more beneficial to share each story in total and then summarize, compare, and contrast at the end. However, the stories from different donors were great to read and see different women’s opinions and experiences. The article sparked my interest in the ethical debates that could ensure over the topic of IVF and egg donation. Overall, the idea of egg donation is a great concept—helping those in need. However, I think that paying women thousands of dollars more than average to seek out specific qualifications is a bit inappropriate. I understand parents want their child to look and be a certain way, but this takes on a very nature approach rather than a nurture approach when regarding intelligence, temperament, and so forth. I can also see the extreme need for an overreaching group to oversee IVF and egg donations to help educate young women making decisions that can have irreparable harm to their bodies/ability to bear children in the future. I am also able to see how religion, culture, values/belief systems, and ethnicity can all play a major role in the ethical debate of egg donation and IVF. In considering the child in their future, they may have issues