To address infertility problems, scientists have come up with an ingenuous solution for infertile couples who want to have their own offspring without turning to adoption.

One of the more popular assisted reproductive technology procedures is egg donation. This procedure involves harvesting healthy eggs from women (egg donors) for purposes of assisted reproduction. Egg donors are usually healthy young women recruited through different forms of advertisement.

In these ads, egg donation is presented as a safe procedure that offers young women two benefits: the opportunity to help infertile couples and to earn some extra cash. Unfortunately, this is not the whole picture.

Eggsploitation, is a documentary released by The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network

Nearly all of us hope to have our own family one day. We may dream of other things as well and pursue our careers (nowadays it’s often possible to follow your dreams and have a family too) but we are likely to have kids under our feet before too long and to relish this as well most of the time! It is expected that when we grow up, we leave home, get a job, marry and create a family of our own. And by family, I mean a mother, a father, and children.

Having kids running around our house is a wonderful feeling for every parent. For most, a family is not complete without children. Unfortunately, some couples find it very hard to conceive. So, they resort to procedures and other means to have babies of their own. Fertility drugs and certain procedures are blessings to couples who are having a hard time creating a child. These have made huge changes to the lives of millions of couples worldwide. However, along with the benefits, there are also some possible risks and side effects..

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The already controversial BeautifulPeople.com, a dating site with a strict ban on ugly people, has taken this one step further, and this will surely be hotly debated again.

It has recently launched a virtual sperm and egg bank for people who want to have beautiful babies. The Beautiful Baby service – which is also available to non-members – was created for people who want to maximize their chances of having good looking children.

This raises for me all sorts of disturbing issues. Who will decide what beauty is, for instance? And is not beauty a quality of the inner heart and of character as much as a visual phenomenon?

I remain wholly sceptical of this initative and hope that others will be too. I think that it is misguided to select one aspect of beauty over another in this facile way.