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Today a WNBC Today crew came to my apartment to interview me about egg donation. One question I was asked went something like, "Some critics fear that young women who maybe don't have a lot of options will decide to donate eggs and then regret it later. Doesn't that worry you?"

My answer was something like, "I think if we were talking about twenty-two-year-old men, no one would ask that question. Plenty of people grow up to regret decisions we made when we were younger, and there are plenty of jobs chosen by young people that are more dangerous than egg donation. Is a twenty-year-old man capable of making a decision to work in a coal mine? Seems so. Perhaps most of the people in the world work at unrewarding and potentially dangerous jobs. Questioning women's capability to make their own choices is infantilizing and paternalistic."

What I should have also said was "Egg donation is a lot less dangerous than going to Iraq, and our government recruits eighteen-year-old women to do this in high schools across the nation. If they're capable of making that decision, they're certainly capable of making this one. And no one's ever gotten PTSD from egg donation."