"It's wrong to put your body under that pressure for money..."

For a woman to undergo weeks of injections, it isn't comfortable...it is a wonderful gift...it would be wrong for money to enter the equation...if you're buying people's time, body it's bribery...egg donation waiting lists may be long but egg sharing isn't...it's not a good option for money to be the carrot to bring women forward, if that were the cast it would be unfortunate and would cause much unhappiness.

Breakfast also spoke to Mary Sidebotham, who has donated her own eggs and works as a midwife at St Mary's hospital in Manchester.

"In this country my egg is worth the same as any other woman's..."

I wouldn't do it for money...in this country my eggs are worth the same as any other woman's, donating eggs is rewarding... you have to go on an IVF programme, you also go through a counselling programme, you are well looked after...a lot of women don't know how to go about giving eggs...

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