The Dangerous Rise of Egg Harvesting
9th October 2024
Given the news about the conflict in the Middle East, “freebiegate”, and the potential vote on assisted dying, you could be forgiven for missing the news this week that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) raised the cap on payments that could be made by fertility clinics to young women for their eggs.
The news had been trailed in August, to the dismay of women’s rights campaigners, and on 1 October the change was made, with payments to women for their eggs rising from £750 to £985 per cycle. Supporters of the policy change say this has come about as payments hadn’t risen since 2011, and that an uplift was necessary to account for inflation. That being the case, we may ask why men are being paid a mere £45 for their sperm, which increased from £35 on 1 October.
It may come as a shock to many readers that you can be paid for your gametes at all, raising as it does the concern that such high payments (for eggs at least) may incentivise young women on low incomes or those who are students to sell their eggs for the money. Indeed, reports have been seen in the media of women undergoing egg donation to pay towards holidays, or to go travelling. For a long time now, eggs and sperm have been tradable commodities.
All part of the feminist program to destroy our civilization by breaking the genetic link between parents and their children. Eventually children will be a fashion accessory, as they are now for celebrities.