Seriously, the class and gender and race issues are HUGE here. I personally want to hurl everytime I see the ads in my local paper asking young, white (always white) women to donate and egg and "make a miracle happen". Firstly, the process is THREE months of hormonal injections which forces the body to make many, many eggs in the time it normally would make 3-6, so that they can be harvested just once to save money. This one women I read about had 30 eggs harvested at the end of the 3 month period. No one reall knows how this effects our long-term health, and some women have had nightmare scenerios with months of spotting and cramps, etc.

Now, a "miracle" is everytime someone adopts an older kid, a child with special needs, or a sibling group so that they don't have to be seperated - or fosters a teenager. Not when Dick and Jane get that healthy white infant they bought and paid for.


You see, I have a bit of an opinion on this....