Over at doublex, Kerry Howley's talking about Kim Krawiec's paper Sunny Samaritans and Egomaniacs: Price-Fixing in the Gamete Marketa. Howley said she was afraid that Kim's paper on "would send me into a Joe-Wilsonesque fit of rage."
But there are good reasons to risk rage. Howley concludes her post:
[F]ertility clinics are rarely challenged, and very often applauded,
by left-wing consumer advocates and right-wing social conservatives
trying to shield women from the true price of their ova. “Some
egg-market critics,” [Krawiec] says, “exhibit a near-obsessive concern that
young women, but not young men, will later regret their decisions to
genetically parent children.” In other words: Men are rational. Women
are overemotional puddles of impending regret. Surely the last
thing we can be expected to think clearly about is our ability to make
small humans. So thank you, American Society for Reproductive Medicine,
for so assiduously protecting us from our reckless, muddle-headed,
baby-loving instincts. We’ll try not to notice that you’re getting rich
doing it.
by left-wing consumer advocates and right-wing social conservatives
trying to shield women from the true price of their ova. “Some
egg-market critics,” [Krawiec] says, “exhibit a near-obsessive concern that
young women, but not young men, will later regret their decisions to
genetically parent children.” In other words: Men are rational. Women
are overemotional puddles of impending regret. Surely the last
thing we can be expected to think clearly about is our ability to make
small humans. So thank you, American Society for Reproductive Medicine,
for so assiduously protecting us from our reckless, muddle-headed,
baby-loving instincts. We’ll try not to notice that you’re getting rich
doing it.
This should be in Kim's weekend around the blogosphere links, but she's too modest to put it there.
Thank you for the kind words, Al!
If there's a contest for best paper title, Kim wins it.
Thanks, Patrick. I hope they implement that contest soon — might be my only chance at glory.
Excellent–really glad to see this paper getting (some of) the attention it deserves.
Thank you Sarah!