“Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them,” a new book by University of Alabama anthropology associate professor Diane Tober, raises … questions about egg donations — not just in terms of accidents here and there, but about systemic abuses like deceiving consumers and engaging in racial discrimination.
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Tober discovered patterns of racism over and over again throughout her research. The top rate for white egg donors in the United States was around $100,000, compared to the top rate for black egg donors being only $12,000. One donor sold eggs for $250,000 for being “perfect” because she was a Chinese American with a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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“Donor profiles are the marketing tools used to attract intended parents, and those women who possess desired social and physical traits will sell faster to a wide range of intended parents than others,” Tober writes, describing the mindset as being disturbingly similar to eugenics.
