Competing interests and gamete donation: the case for anonymity.

Lindsay Cooper is a twenty-six-year-old graduate student studying to become a physician's assistant.' By the fall of her second year, Lindsay had accumulated $150,000 in debt due to loans for her education, living expenses, two credit cards, and a recent loan needed to make her car lease payments. After weeks of passing an advertisement seeking "dreammakers" conveniently posted on a bulletin board down the hall from her anatomy classroom, Lindsay made a few telephone inquires and decided to become an egg donor. Eight weeks, ten doctor's visits, and twenty-eight hormone injections later, Lindsay underwent a minor surgical procedure whereby a cycle of her eggs" were extracted from her body and she received $8000 for her "time and labor."'5 Fortunately, Lindsay experienced only minor side effects during her treatment and was able to schedule her doctor's visits around her classes." In fact, the process went so well that she returned to the clinic ten months later to donate another cycle of eggs. 7 Lindsay enjoyed being able to help an infertile couple have children, but admits that donating her eggs was a service she pro-