To think reduced fees for egg sharing shouldn't be allowed?

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I've seen a few different places advertising that they do egg sharing schemes, where if a women having IVF donates some of her eggs at the same time her fees are reduced.

How is this legal? Isnt it basically exploiting women who may otherwise have chosen not to have a biological child raised by someone else?

If finances are an issue then surely it might make a woman have to make the choice between being able to afford IVF and donating eggs or not having a IVF/a child themselves, so putting pressure on them to do it regardless of whether they actually want to or not.

I agree this defies the intent if not the letter of UK regulation.

Having said that, I don't generally agree that it's wrong to pay people to do things that they wouldn't do if they had more money in the first place. Or at least I'd draw line at a much more extreme point than this. I'd guess that across the world paying egg donors is allowed in more places than it's disallowed. (I don't actually know anywhere other than the UK where it is banned, but it's not something I've looked into.)

Interesting. I’ve never thought about it like this. I’ve always sort of seen it as people who understand infertility as someone going through it helping another woman out. Which I suppose is quite naïve.

Hmm. I think egg donors should be paid, so have no issue with this system, but I do think it probably flies in the face of the legislation somewhat.

I suppose you could argue that the ban on paying donors prevents controlling partners from forcing women to do it for the money. If that's the intention behind the ban, then discounting IVF for donors wouldn't be problematic in the same way as paying the donors outright would.