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A woman has recounted her experience of donating eggs out of financial desperation in China, and though she described it as an overall positive experience, the details of her story are deeply disturbing.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old woman, who went by the pseudonym “Gigi” in her interview with Radio Free Asia<\/a>, said she decided to donate her eggs because she didn’t have much family support, and needed money before graduating college to relocate to Shanghai and get a job. She was told she would be given 45,000 yuan (US$6,300) in exchange for her eggs.<\/p>\n

Gigi was then thoroughly questioned by the surrogacy agency, treating her as if she were livestock in a breeding program. She was interrogated about her height, weight, and family medical history; soon, a potential buyer was interested, and she had to undergo an interview. But when Gigi admitted her grandparents had died at the relatively young age of 60, the buyer backed out… so when another buyer was interested, Gigi was simply coached to lie by the surrogacy agency.<\/p>\n

But the process was just getting started. As Radio Free Asia explained,<\/p>\n

Physical examinations followed at a hospital in Shanghai, where she met the buyer for the first time, a quietly spoken woman in her 30s, who liked Gigi\u2019s looks, particularly her height.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gigi was sent off to stay in a hotel with two other young women, one of whom was doing it to pay for plastic surgery, the other for a vacation. All three had been offered slightly different sums for their eggs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Each day, a black Mercedes would shuttle them back and forth between the hotel and the laboratory, where Gigi described a \u201chuge production chain\u201d with nurses, doctors and nutritionists that looked \u201cformal and professional.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

There, the three women underwent repeated vaginal ultrasound scans so doctors could see when their eggs were ready for harvesting.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gigi suffered pain afterwards, while another woman developed severe ascites, or fluid accumulating in the abdominal cavity. If left untreated, it can be life-threatening<\/a>. Though Gigi said she felt she had been treated well, she told Radio Free Asia she doesn’t think the practice should continue.<\/p>\n

READ: \u2018Blatantly illegal\u2019 ads seeking surrogates create uproar in China<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI was such a naive young woman at the time,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think about things in a mature way, and I didn\u2019t even have anyone to discuss this stuff with.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Qingdao Municipal Health Commission is currently investigating potentially illegal collusion between surrogacy and egg retrieval companies, following accusations from anti-trafficking campaigner Shangguan Zhengyi.<\/p>\n

“An undercover investigation revealed that surrogacy companies colluded with doctors, anesthesiologists, and nurses from medical institutions such as Qingdao Women and Children\u2019s Hospital to engage in illegal egg retrieval and embryo transplantation activities, and sold birth certificates at prices ranging from 50,000 yuan (US$7,000),\u201d they wrote in post to their Weibo account.<\/p>\n

In previous years, an illegal surrogacy ring<\/a> was uncovered, with \u201cservices\u201d including customizing the gender of embryos used for IVF, and if a baby was found to have disabilities at birth, representatives said they would \u201ctake care of the deformed child.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other hospitals have been investigated<\/a> for buying and selling birth certificates, used to legitimate babies who were kidnapped or trafficked, or born through surrogacy.<\/p>\n

Urge Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and other major chains to resist pressure to dispense the abortion pill<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A woman has recounted her experience of donating eggs out of financial desperation in China, and though she described it as an overall positive experience, the details of her story are deeply disturbing. The 25-year-old woman, who went by the pseudonym “Gigi” in her interview with Radio Free Asia, said she decided to donate her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":216061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDisturbing story exposes egg donation process for surrogacy agency in China<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""When Gigi admitted her grandparents had died at the relatively young age of 60, the buyer backed out... so... 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