By Neil Sears and Jenny Hope
PUBLISHED: 23:25 GMT, 11 May 2012
£750 for your eggs: Fertility firm targets Cambridge as critics blast company for exploiting
'financially vulnerable' students
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Yes, we were tempted, say girl targets of fertility touts. Cambridge University Students Jo Hall, 21, and Phoebe Pluckrose-Oliver, 22,
were given leaflets by Altrui, a company looking for egg donors.
The targeting of elite students raises concerns about attempts to create ‘superbabies’.
Thousands of Cambridge students have been targeted by a firm offering up to £750 to egg donors. Leaflets were stuck in their university
pigeonholes, making an emotional plea to help a couple unable to have children.
At the beginning of the summer term two weeks ago, Cambridge students found the company’s leaflets stuffed in their pigeonholes, asking:
‘If you are compassionate, kind, healthy and between 18 and 35 years old, could you help us? We can imagine no greater gift than the chance
to love a child.’
The development appears to be a result of an increase in the amount of ‘compensation’ that can be given to donors, and may confirm fears
of a rise in ‘egg brokers’ profiting from dealing in human lives.
PUBLISHED: 23:25 GMT, 11 May 2012
£750 for your eggs: Fertility firm targets Cambridge as critics blast company for exploiting
'financially vulnerable' students
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Yes, we were tempted, say girl targets of fertility touts. Cambridge University Students Jo Hall, 21, and Phoebe Pluckrose-Oliver, 22,
were given leaflets by Altrui, a company looking for egg donors.
The targeting of elite students raises concerns about attempts to create ‘superbabies’.
Thousands of Cambridge students have been targeted by a firm offering up to £750 to egg donors. Leaflets were stuck in their university
pigeonholes, making an emotional plea to help a couple unable to have children.
At the beginning of the summer term two weeks ago, Cambridge students found the company’s leaflets stuffed in their pigeonholes, asking:
‘If you are compassionate, kind, healthy and between 18 and 35 years old, could you help us? We can imagine no greater gift than the chance
to love a child.’
The development appears to be a result of an increase in the amount of ‘compensation’ that can be given to donors, and may confirm fears
of a rise in ‘egg brokers’ profiting from dealing in human lives.
