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Dia Hadid

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Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

Khodaswaran acknowledges a lively debate in feminist circles.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

Some argue all commercial egg donation and surrogacy should be banned because of how it commodifies women, how it commercializes the creation of a baby.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

H estimates she's harvested her eggs at least 30 times since she began.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

If each round of eggs produced one baby, she'd have some 30 biological children.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

H is sure, though, she's made more babies than that.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

She says, if each time they've harvested 20 eggs from my body, you can assume at least 10 kids have popped out.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

Shweta Desai, who was reporting this story with me, tells her, You are like a super mom.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

There's little research on the impacts for women who retrieve their eggs repeatedly.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

Critics say that reflects how little value is given to women who provide their biomaterial once their eggs have been removed.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

But one known impact is ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

Mild cases can cause bloating.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

A severe case can cause respiratory distress.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

And according to reports published in two medical journals, two women died after these latest laws were passed, after they were stimulated to produce eggs.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

There's no data, no reporting.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

And who would these women report to?

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

There's one incident that H tells us that has never made it into a police complaint or into data.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

Two years ago, she says, she went to Chennai to harvest her eggs at a fertility clinic there.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

The agent, unusually, was a man.

Up First from NPR
The Human Egg Sellers

She'd never worked with him before and she didn't like his vibe.