{"id":11690,"date":"2015-07-28T13:27:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T13:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=11690"},"modified":"2015-08-12T14:13:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:13:26","slug":"how-much-is-a-human-egg-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2015\/07\/how-much-is-a-human-egg-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"How much is a human egg worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {   var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];   if (d.getElementById(id)) return;   js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;   js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";   fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ppfamilyeggdonation730.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ppfamilyeggdonation730.jpg\" alt=\"ppfamilyeggdonation730\" width=\"960\" height=\"782\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ppfamilyeggdonation730.jpg 960w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ppfamilyeggdonation730-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA federal lawsuit brought by two egg donors claim price guidelines adopted by fertility clinics nationwide have artificially suppressed the amount they can get for their eggs, in violation of federal antitrust laws.  The women don&#8217;t believe fertility clinics should be allowed to set price caps.<\/p>\n<p>The industry groups behind the price guidance \u2014 which discourages payments above $10,000 per egg-donation cycle \u2014 say caps are needed to prevent coercion and exploitation in the egg-donation process.<\/p>\n<p>But the plaintiffs say the guidelines amount to an illegal conspiracy to set prices in violation of antitrust laws. The conspiracy, they argue in court papers, has deprived women nationwide a free market in which to sell their eggs, and enabled fertility clinics to \u201creap anticompetitive profits for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The technology behind donated human eggs dates to the late 1980s. The fee hovered around $2,000 until the late 1990s, when demand went up and clinics began paying more, said Rene Almeling, a sociology professor at Yale University and author of a 2011 book on the business of egg and sperm donation.<\/p>\n<p>Rising prices for donated eggs prompted concern within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asrm.org\/splash\/splash.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">American Society for Reproductive Medicine<\/a>, a nonprofit medical-specialty group focused on reproductive medicine and a defendant in the lawsuit. In 2000, the organization, made up largely of doctors who pay to join, suggested that payments should not go above $5,000 without justification, and said that payments greater than $10,000 went \u201cbeyond what is appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The price guidelines aren\u2019t mandates. But more than 90% of the nation\u2019s clinics belong to the society, which has adopted the guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/putting-a-price-on-a-human-egg-1437952456\" target=\"_blank\">wsj.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Photo of family who benefited from egg donation not associated with article<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=11690\" data-num-posts=\"10\" data-width=\"700\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal lawsuit brought by two egg donors claim price guidelines adopted by fertility clinics nationwide have artificially suppressed the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45999,"featured_media":11702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,24],"tags":[10267,2046],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How much is a human egg worth? 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