In Response to "Your Gamete, Myself"

This article was very interesting. I am still shocked at the amount of money the procedure of receiving egg donations actually costs. I don’t think I really understand the point of it though. You can go through the process of receiving donated eggs and give birth to a child that doesn’t look like you for $35, 000, or you could adopt a child skip the pregnancy and painful child birth experience and save a ton of money and have the same result. If you ask me I think that some of these couples are out of their minds. I understand that psychologically it would be more natural to actually give birth to the child but how much of a difference does that actually make? Would the couples care for the child less if it were adopted rather than a child conceived from donated eggs? I think people are missing the bigger picture. Their goal is to have a family, and I think some people are losing sight of that. With the amount of children in the world that need homes and families is I.V.F. the route to take?