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Scrolling through the list of opportunities on the Student Employment Office reveals a range of possible money making gigs—babysitter, office assistant, Widener drone, and now, sperm donor. The stimulating alternative to work-study popped up on the website two-weeks ago thanks to the The New England Cryrogenic Center, located just a two-minute walk from the Kenmore Square T-stop...
...wouldn’t have done it. But I think that in this day and age, students are smart enough to know that it’s their own choice.” Homer explained that she discussed the issue with her co-workers, who reassured her that sperm donation was a very legitimate and legal way of earning money. “But I would not place an advertisement for egg donors,” Homer added...
Considering the market value of eggs, the thousands of dollars students could make off the donation would seem out of place among the hourly-wage jobs listed on the SEO website. Of course, sperm donation pays pretty well too. At $70 a shot with up to eight visits per month, a hard worker can earn upwards of $5,000 within a year—if he has the stamina to keep it up for that long...
...discussions that they wanted just one child. What's more, notes Stanford law professor Deborah Rhode, "theirs was a very extensive contract. There were 50 clauses providing for every contingency," including the case of a multiple pregnancy, a real possibility given that three donor eggs fertilized by Wheeler's sperm were implanted in Beasley's womb. The contract required Beasley to honor the couple's decision about whether to have a selective reduction, the termination of one or more fetuses in a multiple pregnancy. Still, Beasley says, "I didn't realize they would go so ballistic" over the idea...
...your father. In the past 15 years, though, researchers have learned that at least 50 pairs of these so-called autosomal genes act a little differently. In a process called imprinting, one of each pair is permanently turned on or off, depending on whether it derives from the sperm...