Struggling Couples Look Out for ‘Egg Agents,’ Experts Warn about Serious Health Risks to Donors

Beautiful young and attractive women donate their eggs to infertile parents and generate a good income for themselves.

The Egg Donor Program in Studio City, California, looks out for women who are willing to become "egg agents" for parents struggling for babies.

 "We're people who search high and low for women who have qualities that other people would desire," Shellie Smith, founder of the program, told TODAY.

It has become a charity-kinda-thingy for the women who help the couples for babies. For 28-year-old Robyn Marie Young of New York, it was "flattering" to give her eggs to the infertile people. "I find it flattering that people would want to actually use my genes and have a kid that looks like me," Young said. So far she donated thrice and earned between $8,000 and $10,000 every single time.

The idea of donating her eggs came to mind after she saw an ad that sought a "green-eyed Italian beauty" willing to give her eggs. "It is a kind loving thing to do and much more acceptable than it was when we started," Smith said.

Women need to undergo a series of procedure to donate eggs. These included background tests and health screenings. Few of them are also interviewed by the couples.

However, health experts have their own reservations against this trend. A doctor told ABC News that donating eggs constantly poses some serious health issues. "You're playing Russian roulette with your future fertility and your future health," Dr Robert Stillman, director of the Shady Grove Fertility Center in Maryland, told ABC News.  "The more you ovulate, the greater the risk of ovarian cancer. So if these stimulated cycles are more risk, then there may be more potential as [these donors] age in their seventies and eighties to get cancer."

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine recommends women to limit their donation of the eggs to six.