[chimeracoder]

> Seriously, egg donation seems to affect your health more than plasma donation

Yes, for a healthy individual, the act of donating plasma is about as risk free as you can get. Perhaps sperm donation is the only less risky live tissue donation. The reason we pay for it is that, if we didn't, we wouldn't have enough, and people would die. That's not speculative - countries which don't pay for plasma donation end up buying it from the US.

Donating eggs can have really serious complications even for healthy individuals - its not a trivial procedure, and even when performed correctly, it carries a small risk of infertility.

That's not to say you shouldn't do it, but there's another reason that we shouldn't expect women to do it for free - that actually becomes a lot more exploitative than providing up-front compensation and a full explanation of the risks, which we do.

[kgwgk]

A minor clarification: plasma donation is not even about "live tissue". You get your blood cells back, only the plasma is taken.