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| - | ~~DECKJS~~ | ||
| - | # For Sale # | ||
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| - | ## The body as commodity ## | ||
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| - | Ryan Schram | ||
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| - | Mills 169 (A26) | ||
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| - | ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au | ||
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| - | Monday, August 27, 2014 | ||
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| - | Available at: http:// | ||
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| - | ## Cannibal Tours ## | ||
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| - | Let's watch some selected scenes from [[http:// | ||
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| - | ## An editorial decision ## | ||
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| - | Portland, Oregon, 1997. The Reed College //Quest// editors meet to discuss an | ||
| - | inquiry about a classified ad. | ||
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| - | It was something like this: | ||
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| - | **" | ||
| - | couple. Will pay $3000 plus all medical expenses for a donation of | ||
| - | several eggs. Candidates should have a minimum GPA of 3.5 and minimum | ||
| - | combined SAT scores of 1600." | ||
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| - | (GPA: grade point average, 3.5 is approximately a WAM of 80. SATs are | ||
| - | college entrace exams. Under the old system, 1600 would have been | ||
| - | close to an ATAR of 95.) | ||
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| - | ## Meanwhile... ## | ||
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| - | Wendie Wilson was a student at the University of Washington around the | ||
| - | same time. She volunteered to give several eggs for $5000. | ||
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| - | "It seemed a relatively small amount of my time for what seemed to be | ||
| - | pretty decent compensation." | ||
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| - | She later founded an egg donor registry, Gifted Journeys. | ||
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| - | ## Human trafficking? | ||
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| - | A friend recalls similar ads in student publications at a university | ||
| - | in Vancouver, British Columbia. "We had ads at my college in Canada | ||
| - | too, even though selling eggs isn't legal there. I guess they would | ||
| - | ship you to the US for the procedure" | ||
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| - | ## What the ads ask for ## | ||
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| - | * University students (young women who have more and better-quality ova). | ||
| - | * Preferred hair and eye color. | ||
| - | * Prefered race. | ||
| - | * Prefered school. Ivy-league (Harvard, Yale, etc.) schools are | ||
| - | especially popular, as are Berkeley and Stanford. | ||
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| - | ## Planet America ## | ||
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| - | Unlike many countries, the sale of gametes is largely unregulated in | ||
| - | the US, and the US has generally looser regulations on IVF and | ||
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| - | ## How much? ## | ||
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| - | One source of controversy is how much women should be paid. In | ||
| - | general, factors influencing the fee are: | ||
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| - | * Health and family history of disease | ||
| - | * Grades at university. | ||
| - | * SAT (university entrance) scores. | ||
| - | * Prestige of the university. Ivy-league (Harvard, Yale, etc.) | ||
| - | students with good grades can be offered up to $35,000. | ||
| - | * One ad in a Brown University (Rhode Island) newspaper said that "an | ||
| - | extraordinary egg donor" would be paid $50,000 (Tuller 2010). | ||
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| - | ## Hmmm... ## | ||
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| - | The annual cost of tuition at Brown (excluding financial aid): **$59,428** | ||
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| - | Most students receive some financial aid. A typical student would be | ||
| - | responsible for about half of this " | ||
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| - | ## The argument for ## | ||
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| - | Australia and Canada have banned the buying of women' | ||
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| - | One researcher says that this means that this gives infertile couples | ||
| - | an incentive to go abroad, where there are no protections for | ||
| - | donors (Nash 2012). | ||
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| - | ## Should the US ban the sale of ova? ## | ||
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| - | What are the reasons for a ban? | ||
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| - | What are the reasons against a ban? | ||
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| - | ## What else should we ban? ## | ||
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| - | Compensation for plasma donation? | ||
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| - | ## Works consulted ## | ||
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| - | Brown University. 2014. "Cost of Attendance." | ||
| - | Site. Accessed August 26, 2014. | ||
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| - | Cohen, I. Glenn, and Eli Y. Adashi. 2013. " | ||
| - | Sale -- A Brave New World?" | ||
| - | 2517–19. doi: | ||
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| - | Health Canada. 2013. " | ||
| - | Material and Purchasing or Selling In Vitro Embryos." | ||
| - | Canada. Last modified 18 July 2013. | ||
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| - | Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. 2014. "Egg Donation and | ||
| - | Egg Sharing." | ||
| - | 26 August 2014. http:// | ||
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| - | Nash, Meredith. 2012. "Women who donate their eggs deserve | ||
| - | compensation - here's why." The Conversation, | ||
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| - | Tuller, David. 2010. " | ||
| - | The New York Times, May 10, sec. Health. | ||
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| - | Zhai Xiaomei. 2004. "ABA Country Report for China, 2003" Eubios: | ||
| - | International and Asian Journal of Bioethics 14: | ||
| - | 5-10. http:// | ||
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| - | ## A guide to the unit ## | ||
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