Student reveals details of selling her eggs on China’s black market to repay US$9,000 debt
- Woman says she was given drugs over 10 days to stimulate her ovaries before her eggs were harvested in surgical procedure at illegal clinic
- It’s the latest case exposing the business which targets university students
A university student in central China has revealed how she underwent two surgical procedures to sell her eggs to illegal fertility agencies so that she could repay a 60,000 yuan (US$9,000) debt.
It is the latest case exposing the black market for eggs – mostly from university students – that are sold to infertile couples who can now try for up to two children after the one-child policy was scrapped.
In an audio clip obtained by Thepaper.cn, the woman from Wuhan, Hubei province, who requested anonymity, gave details of how she sold 29 of her eggs in two separate procedures, the news site reported on Tuesday.
The woman said both times she was given drugs over 10 days to stimulate her ovaries before the eggs were harvested in a procedure that she underwent without anaesthesia.
Normally a woman produces one egg each month. Fertility drugs can cause a wide range of side effects including mood changes, nausea and increased risk of miscarriage.
Although it is illegal for women to sell their eggs in China, they can donate them up to three times. Medical institutions and staff are also banned from carrying out surrogacy, but the business is booming on the mainland where it operates in a grey area.
