The dark side of the global human-egg trade

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  This is in conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shemit Sebastu.

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  Today, the Dark side of the Global Human Egg

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  like millions of people around the world,

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  Maria knew that she wanted to have kids.

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  She was in her late 30s and she and her husband weren't able to conceive on their own.

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  So they decided to try in vitro fertilization IVF in their home country of Greece.

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  Their first two attempts failed.

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  Then in 2020, on their third try, the clinic told her they successfully retrieved six eggs from her ovaries.

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  A few weeks later, Maria was pregnant.

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  Four years went by when Maria, who is using a pseudonym for this story, was summoned to the local police station.

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  Waiting there for her were two police officers and a psychologist,

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  and what they told her she found completely devastating.

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  The fertility clinic she'd worked with actually retrieved double the number of eggs they told her,

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  and those eg used to create embryos for another woman.

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