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Increase in Egg Donors Raises Concerns
But Grainger and some others in the field concede that even the most careful guidelines can't absolutely prevent regrets later in life. That was the case for one young woman who initially told herself she was donating to help prospective parents.
"But if I'm honest, I did it for financial reasons; I wanted to travel," says the 31-year-old woman who lives in New York and works for an international nonprofit. She asked to remain anonymous since her family doesn't know she donated eggs three times.
  Comedian Jennifer Dziura, a former egg donor who is hoping to donate another egg, poses for a photo before going on stage to perform a stand up at Petes Candy Store in Brooklyn, NY, on Monday, Jan. 29, 2007. (AP Photo/Adam Rountree) (Adam Rountree - AP)  
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"It would be a relief to know that my eggs were being used to find medical cures," she says, "rather than being used to produce additional kids for well-to-do American families."
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Martha Irvine is a national writer who specializes in coverage of people in their 20s and younger. She can be reached at mirvine(at)ap.org
