# Can I sell certified US citizen sperm/eggs?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 26, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-sell-certified-us-citizen-sperm-eggs/623145 "2012-05-26T06:20:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-sell-certified-us-citizen-sperm-eggs/623145/1 "2012-05-26T06:20:06Z")

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[http://www.fertilityauthority.com/blogger/claire/2012/3/21/denying-ivf-babies-american-citizenship-not-uncommon-expert](http://www.fertilityauthority.com/blogger/claire/2012/3/21/denying-ivf-babies-american-citizenship-not-uncommon-expert)

Remember this news story from a few months ago?

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> Yesterday, a surprising news report was published about a U.S. woman living in Israel whose children born via in vitro fertilization (IVF) were denied U.S citizenship. When the woman, Chicago native Ellie Lavi, went to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to apply for citizenship for her twins, she was asked whether she had gotten pregnant at a fertility clinic and was told that her children were not eligible for citizenship unless she could prove that the egg donor or sperm donor was an American citizen.
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> Marna Gatlin, the founder of Parents Via Egg Donation (PVED) and a regular blogger for FertilityAuthority, wasn’t surprised by the report and says this situation is not uncommon for parents she works with who are living in Israel.

Ok so if any non-US citizen women want to birth a US citizen just come to grude’s house of certified US citizen sperm and eggs and tacos! All our donors are certified and available for DNA testing should the embassy request it!

:dubious:What is the flaw in my plan?

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**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-sell-certified-us-citizen-sperm-eggs/623145/2 "2012-05-26T06:49:35Z")

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It might make an interesting court case, but I was under the impression that the supreme court had recently ruled that sperm did not grant the same rights as natural conception. More specifically, a woman tried to apply for survivors benefits for her twins that she conceived after her husband died using her husbands frozen sperm.