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What Price the Human Egg?

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by Morganne Rosenhaus, Reproductive Health Technologies Project

April 5, 2010 - 4:29pm (Print)

With spring here and Easter in the rearview mirror, you can't help but think a bit about eggs of all types, among them human eggs. Amidst research on marketing of human eggs, I found this Latin proverb, “All life comes from an egg.”  I find this sentiment a bit dated.  Instead I’d like to suggest something a bit more up-to-date, “All life comes from an egg, but that egg comes at a price.”

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RH Reality Check Interviews: Donna Dickenson, Author of "Body Shopping"

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by Mandy Van Deven, RH Reality Check

June 25, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

"Body Shopping" author Donna Dickenson draws a connection between "beauty junkies" and bone thieves, and asks the reader to consider the consequences of transforming the human body into a sellable object.
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The Economic Crisis: A Generation of Reproductive Health "Horror Stories"

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by Carole Joffe, University of California

January 7, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

From surrogacy and egg donation to inducing labor, the economic crisis is driving women to do things with their bodies that they otherwise would not do.
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