Response to Your Gamete, Myself

As I read the Your Gamete, Myself article, I realized that I have many mixed emotions on the topics of things like sperm and egg donation as well adoption. I feel as if adoption is the healthiest and most logical choice for couples who are looking to become parents but are unable to do so on their own. I also feel that by adopting children, everyone involved in the situation wins. The adoptees get the child they always wanted or longed for but maybe were unable to have, and a needy child gets a home with loving parents who will raise and care for them. I feel that conceiving children artificially, in the long run only benefits the parents. The parents may get the child they have wanted or longed for but at what cost. Yes, it does cost a lot of money, but I am talking about an even greater cost. The donor of the egg is asked to take drugs whose side effects could require hospitalization and even in extremely rare instances, be fatal. For me, the whole idea of an egg donor just seems too unnatural. Another thing to consider is if and/or when to tell the child about how they were conceived. What if the child wants to meet their real mother or father and who gets to decide if they should be able to or not? I just think that the idea of having children artificially has the potential to create a lot of problems for not only the children but for the donor and recipients as well.