# Why can't women just sell their babies? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 11, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-women-just-sell-their-babies/289669 "2005-02-11T23:34:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-women-just-sell-their-babies/289669/41 "2005-02-13T20:12:14Z")
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**Author:** ![Susie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@Susie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-women-just-sell-their-babies/289669/42 "2005-02-13T22:56:46Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Nobody got the Swift reference? > \ > The quality of Dopers is going down these days. > > Ah well. > > No point in stewing over it. **stewing** … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-women-just-sell-their-babies/289669/43 "2005-02-13T23:48:56Z")
> [@Susie](#): > > **stewing** … 😃 Ooooh! Welcome to the SDMB, **Susie**! You’re the kind of new Doper we like to see: smart, sharp, well-read, & with a wicked nasty sense o humor. You’ll do fine. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-women-just-sell-their-babies/289669/44 "2005-02-14T00:12:43Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > Perhaps. it. should! Every time. someone “talks”. like this. it. reminds me. of. Captain Kirk 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-women-just-sell-their-babies/289669/45 "2005-02-14T00:18:53Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Apart from the (im)moral considerations, let’s see some consequences of treating babies as products: > > - how long will the warranty last? > - who do you return an unwanted product to? > - what if I get bored with it? > - can I get a discount for bulk buying? > - what will the secondhand price be? > > :rolleyes: Are they free range? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-women-just-sell-their-babies/289669/46 "2005-02-14T13:26:43Z")
Its sad, but all of glee’s “jokes” do come up in the real world. People who adopt kids and then “return” the child. Occationally years later (but often quickly). People who want to know immediately if its “cheaper to adopt two” (it often is as you can use the homestudy again or just have it updated). And the secondhand price is often free - kids whose placement is “disrupted” are quickly placed into homes - often homes the social workers know and trust. Kaitlyn, Beginning in the 1980s, South Korea put quota restrictions on the number of kids leaving due to international criticism that they weren’t taking care of their own problem. The upshot is that now South Korea has far more children adoptable than they will let out of the country. Kids the S Korea government has to support. So the “supply” is more than the “demand” and I doubt much baby selling occurs. Although its naive to believe it never happens other places. Yep, and kidnapping children is worse than selling them. ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-women-just-sell-their-babies/289669/47 "2005-02-14T17:49:12Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Babies aren’t consumables in the sense that say calves are. Nobody needs a regular supply of babies … \ What about baby oil manufacturers? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-women-just-sell-their-babies/289669/48 "2005-02-14T19:45:55Z")
**Dangerosa** : That’s both sad, for the babies who don’t get good homes, and heartening–that they’ve cracked down on baby selling–to hear. Thank you for the information. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-women-just-sell-their-babies/289669/49 "2005-02-14T22:15:29Z")
> [@Princess Clara](#): > > This is a little off topic but some women have mentioned selling their eggs here. How did you get into that situation? Are there egg-scouts wandering the college campuses out there for fertile looking women to approach? Or did you contact an agency of some sort to offer your eggs for money? Selling some eggs of my own have crossed my mind a few times but all the sitcoms and teen movies out there only show men going to sperm banks for a quick buck and not women so I have no idea how the whole thing works. A friend of mine told me about the procedure while in college. I don’t remember exactly how she came to hear of it but I have seen people take out ads asking for egg donors before. I believe she found something online, but her case was unusual as she had direct contact with her ‘match’ so she talked to the woman she was donating for throughout the whole process. This was not normally the case, and I did go through the screening and matching process myself and was indeed matched up within a few weeks but I was not allowed to know who I was matched with. Likewise the recipients did not know my name, but they were allowed to see a profile of many details about me. I just called the fertility clinic she directed me to and said I was interested in donating eggs, and they made an appointment with me to be screened and undergo a few physical and psychological tests. After all the prescreening and stuff I did not actually end up donating, as there are timing issues that you have to deal with to synch up your cycle with your match and it just did not work out as I only had one summer’s window of time that I was available to donate and time ran out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-women-just-sell-their-babies/289669.md?page=2)