At least $10,000 in the US. More depending on specifics.
There’s a month of fertility injections (with very large bore needles into the hip) with all the resulting hormonal issues, and then the ova retrieval procedure. Repeated until the eggs (plural) are fertilized in vitro and the recipient implants successfully.
OK, that’s orders of magnitude more than what I was expecting. Yeah, for that kind of money, a black market is plausible.
The fact that we can’t be sure which one it is is rather telling.
Yeah, it’s the nation of Georgia.
Well, it’s just allegations, but there are now 16 therapists at 8 spas who accuse Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker of sexual improprieties.
This article seems a bit ironic in retrospect.
Sounds like part of him was upright.
I mean, it’s literally his job to get something within the uprights.
Isn’t keeping things upright the defensive linebacker’s job?
I didn’t click on that link expecting this:
…facing multiple felonies after investigators say the teens forced two brothers to perform sexual acts on one another…
From the Guardian (full story here:
A Jewish man in Miami Beach is facing charges of attempted murder following accusations that he opened fire on two men he believed were Palestinians but reportedly turned out to be Israeli visitors.
According to arrest documents, at 9.30pm on Saturday surveillance video appeared to show Mordechai Brafman, 27, getting out of his truck and opening fire with a semiautomatic handgun at a vehicle as it passed. Brafman allegedly fired 17 times, striking one victim in the left shoulder and grazing the other’s left forearm.
While in custody, Brafman spontaneously told detectives that while he was driving his truck, “he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both”, arrest documents said.
Law enforcement officials did not confirm if the victims were in fact Palestinians and the Miami Herald reported that they were actually two vacationing Israelis, naming them as Ari Rabey and his father.
Further complicating the incident, one of the injured men reportedly posted “death to the Arabs” in a message on social media after the shooting. “My father and I went through a murder attempt against antisemitic background,” he wrote.
Nobody expects the Spanish Incestition!
I found this story to be darkly funny. Am I a bad person?
If finding that funny is bad, I don’t wanna be good.
Because if there’s one thing the Israeli/Palestinian conflict needs now, it’s Florida Man.
Iunno, Israel Man isn’t exactly coming off looking like a hero right now, either.
True, they seem like a couple of lowlifes, but they didn’t shoot anyone and didn’t deserve to get shot.
It does say something that this question even has to be asked, doesn’t it?
The writing on the clothing shown in the article is in the Georgian (the country) language so yes, presumably in the country of that name and not the US state.
Mothers of fraternal twins (and other multiples) might beg to differ on that.
Anyhow, that’s the natural course of events. There are medications out there that can induce a woman’s ovaries to ripen and spit out lots of eggs every month.
That’s not cost-effective for the natural single-eggs dispensing. Getting a “free woman” to dispense multiple eggs in a month requires the administration of shots over a period of time prior to the donation so it’s a bit more involved than just “stopping by” once a month. Also, those medications have side effects and possible long-term health consequences for the woman involved.
All of which makes holding women captive so you have complete control over them appealing to a certain sort of exploitive human who has little to no regard for the rights of other people.
This is just cruelty for the sake of it. I didn’t watch the video and I don’t want to do so.
…And I suppose, now that I think about it, that harvesting eggs probably isn’t the only thing these captors are doing to the women.
Ugh, now I need brain bleach.
Congratulations Republicans you got one