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Volume 356:1289-1291 March 29, 2007 Number 13 Next

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Anna Behrens is 24 years old. Tall and slim, she is working toward her Ph.D. in art history at an Ivy League school. During her undergraduate years, Anna accumulated $27,000 in credit-card debt. In the fall of 2005, frustrated by her economic straits, Anna answered an advertisement in her university's magazine promising $25,000 to a "tall, athletic woman" willing to "give a gift of life and love." Anna visited the agent who had placed the ad, underwent medical tests at a fertility clinic, and met the couple that was searching for eggs. Through the agent, they offered her $20,000 plus . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Spar is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, Boston.

An interview with Dr. Spar and with Emily Galpern of the Center for Genetics and Society in Oakland, California, can be heard at www.nejm.org.

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