MONA STARTED DONATING her eggs in 2012, not long after she arrived in the U.S. from the Middle East. As a refugee, Mona, who asked to keep her last name private, ran up credit card debt while she was securing her refugee status and wanted to repay it quickly. “I started to donate because I heard that there was good money,” she says. “When I heard [I could make] between $6,000 and $8,000, I thought, ‘Great, an easy way to make money, close out my debt and be comfortable.'”

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