BBC Scotland recruiting young women as egg donors

Maybe not but live kidney donation is far more risky than egg donation with potential for long term harm.

Show me something comparable that men are encouraged do for total strangers.

Altruistic live kidney donation although women do this too.

There's an enourmous number of newspaper articles about how easy it is, and comments like "why let them go to waste". And according to this article a higher number of egg donors that sperm donors.

https://www.londonwomensclinic.com/ova/articles/london-egg-bank-makes-uk-sourced-donor-eggs-available-to-partner-clinics-for-the-first-time-as-demand-for-egg-donation-rises/

I actually did do egg donation for a family member years ago, but thankfully it didn't work, the two times with mine they weren't viable and she used someone else's in the end.

It was the most painful, horrific experience I went through and I was v v young when I did it. I've kind of blocked out a lot of the experience. I'm horrified it's being advertised as a thing to just do now. I was kind of emotionally manipulated into it by said family member, now that I'm older and wiser and can see it. However at the time it was seen as supportive and kind. I certainly wouldn't have done it for a stranger.

She's now stopped speaking to me and my whole side of the family now anyway (nothing to do with that, just a whole other stupid reason years later), so that would have been a pretty awful situation if her children had been biologically mine!

I did briefly consider doing this altruistically for a family member.

I now thank my lucky stars that I never even mentioned it to them - in the years that followed they then joined a high-control religious group, we had a semi-permanent rift in our relationship and it would have been a colossal mistake.

You just don’t know what might happen.

"Deaths have been reported as a result of OHSS but you are 10 times more likely to die following natural childbirth than from donating eggs.'''

Indeed. But then you're giving birth because you want your own child to love and raise. Not because some stupid advert has convinced you it is the kind thing to do for a stranger.

It's gobsmacking how women are chivvied and shamed into taking these risks. Show me something comparable that men are encouraged do for total strangers.

It’s frightening how in recent years, female reproductive systems are reduced to something to be commodified.

Egg donations, surrogacy, womb transplants etc are so risky and yet pushed as something that’s all happy clappy and a kind thing to do.

Sometimes I hate advances in medical science because as usual it’s women themselves that are bottom of the pile.

I honestly do think you’d have to be quite low intelligence to do this, do they feel no responsibility towards their own flesh and blood? Imagine you gave away your egg and 18 years later a young adult turns up and tells you they had an awful childhood and suffered abuse at the hands of the strangers you gave your egg to. I’d no sooner give my existing children away to strangers to bring up.