(NPR) – Women selling their eggs illegally is an open secret in the Indian fertility industry. Even though the for-profit industry relies on their biomaterial to keep operating, NPR found that the women whose eggs are harvested are usually poor and vulnerable to exploitation but have no recourse because they operate in a black market. 

It’s unclear how many women sell their eggs in India.

H says women like her hide in plain sight. She says, “There are so many who are literally running their houses on egg donation.” (Read More)