To the editor:

In the March 22 issue of letters to the editor, Kelli Gardner was responding to Rachel Hein’s Feb. 22 letter, “Donating eggs.”

At first I agreed with her stance on how it is wrong for women to sell their eggs.

I didn’t realize that eggs were sold. I thought it was all right to donate eggs but not to sell for money.

Then, I began to think, men sell their sperm and it is acceptable.

These women are just trying to help other couples out when they want to have a baby.

Gardner calls the women irresponsible for paying for an egg.

The statement before that is that women should adopt from teen-agers having children because they cannot give them a good home.

The way I look at it, the women are being very responsible for the planning and the willingness to go through labor and raising their own child. The only irresponsible person is the teenager having unprotected sex.

Though adoption is a good alternative for buying an egg, those women may want to raise their own child from birth, even though it may not be her egg.

It will still have part of the father’s traits.

Lisa Tichy

Freshman

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