The legal mother of the child may, in fact, be the egg donor.
Of those 100,000 women, about 10 percent do so to become egg donors.
My husband and I are planning to have a child through an egg donor.
As for the $50,000 payment to the egg donor, why not?
Smith herself had twins with the help of an egg donor.
In addition, most egg donors are eager to meet the women who want their eggs.
This distinction is important since a Jewish egg donor may be needed.
Or the eggs could come from young women who volunteer as egg donors.
Thus compensation given to an egg donor is well deserved.
An egg donor may be motivated by a number of reasons to provide eggs.