College Students Selling Eggs For Profit
LIN: An update now on the Indianapolis slayings -- as we have reported, seven family members gunned down in their home. Standing by live with the latest, CNN's Jonathan Freed -- Jonathan.</s>JONATHAN FREED, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, Carol. That's right. That's seven family members of one extended family. We're talking about four adults and three children. And just listen to the ages of the children. We are talking about a 5-year-old, an 11-year- old. And the other child is either 8 or 9 years old. Police could not confirm that for us yet. Now, the children were all found in one bed. And police aren't saying anything beyond that, as to why they might have been in the bed. But that's where all three kids were discovered. The adults, though, were found scattered throughout the home. All of this happened last night at around 10:15 p.m. here at Indianapolis. Police were called here because there were reports of shots being fired inside the house. They are looking for suspects right now, Carol. And they have named one of them. And we have a photo of him. His name is Desmond Turner. He is 28 years old. Police say that he is known to them, has a history of arrests. And they describe him as dangerous. And they are saying that their presumption is that he is most likely armed. They say that he's about 5'9'' tall, weighs 150 pounds, has a mustache and a beard. Police are telling us that an assault rifle was the weapon that was used in the killings here. And they say that at least some of this, Carol, involved a robbery -- Carol.</s>LIN: Any idea, Jonathan, whether this was racially motivated?</s>FREED: We don't know that yet. These are all the questions that people are asking. And police -- you get the sense from them that, is often the case in a story like this, that they know a little more than they are letting on at s point, in particular because they are trying to deal with at least two people who are at large. One witness who was here last night and provided police with the name of Desmond Turner said that there could be as many as three other people that they thought were with them. Police say that, at this point, they are only looking for two people. They are still trying to prove out the rest of that.</s>LIN: And what are the neighbors telling you?</s>FREED: Well, neighbors here, of course, are -- are shocked by what has happened here. They say that the -- the family, the older couple that owns the home -- and they have been here for quite a while. They are very well-liked. Just lovely people is how they have been described. Police say that there has never been any trouble at this house before, that the only other time that they were called here, Carol, was to respond to a burglar alarm that once went off. But there is some sense from people that we have spoken to -- and, of course, you never know. When you talk to different people who live on a street, neighbors being neighbors, two people could witness the same thing and come away with markedly different interpretations or opinions of what it was that they saw. People are describing a degree of hostility that might have existed on the street between the grown children of the couple that own the house and some other people on the street. But, beyond that, though, people are saying, no, nice quiet family, and police say never had to come here before -- Carol.</s>LIN: Jonathan, thank you very much.</s>LIN: Well, help wanted, part-time work, $20,000. Men, need not apply. This college grad has answered the call twice. She many other women are donating their eggs for a fee. It's a godsend to couples trying desperately to conceive. And business is booming. CNN's Deborah Feyerick explains, in a story from "PAULA ZAHN NOW."</s>DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Meet Jamie Coahran, beautiful, bright, a varsity athlete. She just graduated from the University of Colorado. She believes in ghosts and wishes on stars. It says so right in her profile. (on camera): They ask you very detailed questions...</s>JAMIE COAHRAN, EGG DONOR: Yes.</s>FEYERICK: ... things that you wouldn't necessarily expect. So, for example, food, your answer?</s>COAHRAN: My answer is crab.</s>FEYERICK: Color.</s>COAHRAN: Red.</s>FEYERICK: Season.</s>COAHRAN: Fall or winter.</s>FEYERICK: Holiday.</s>COAHRAN: Christmas.</s>FEYERICK (voice-over): These aren't questions for some dating Web site. It's an egg donation site for couples trying to have a baby, searching for the perfect donor. The details are in the DNA, and getting the right DNA doesn't come cheap. Ten thousand dollars, that's the price a couple agreed to pay for Jamie's next egg donation, twice what she was paid when she first donated last year -- the demand, even greater now. Anywhere you find college kids, you're likely to find ads in student papers promising great money, too good to pass up, $10,000, $15,000, $20,000 for first-time donors. Andrew Vorzimer is president of Egg Donation Inc., one of 250 such privately owned agencies across the United States. There's no set price for egg donations. Vorzimer, who doesn't work with anyone under the age of 21, says dangling high figures can be dangerously tempting.</s>ANDREW VORZIMER, PRESIDENT, EGG DONATION INC.: When you target 19-, 20-year-old college ladies who are facing $50,000, $60,000, $100,000 in tuition bills, they see these advertisements in their school paper, and they jump at it, without considering the risks, without thinking through the ramifications of going forward.</s>FEYERICK: The risks in very rare cases include infertility. The ramifications include donor babies who may one day try to find their genetic mother. Yet, the money can't be ignored. (on camera): Why did they say, we picked you?</s>FEYERICK (voice-over): And women at Ivy League universities and top-tier colleges can command even higher prices.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The scariest thing for most donors that go through IVF...</s>FEYERICK (voice-over): Egg donation requires a month-long commitment, twice daily hormone shots to stimulate the ovaries, and surgery under general anesthesia to remove the eggs. They are then fertilized. And the resulting embryos are implanted in the birth mother's womb.</s>COAHRAN: You got your appointments and everything. So, I mean, it's almost kind of like a job. It's like, why would you expect somebody to come and work for you and to do all these things for you and to be punctual, and not expect any type of compensation?</s>FEYERICK: Twenty-five thousand dollars is far above the $6,000 agencies say they pay for first-time donors. Yet, it shows how far some couples will go to get the right kind of genes to conceive their ideal child. Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, director of the Infertility Center at Cornell Weill Medical Center, pioneered egg donation, and he disagrees.</s>DR. ZEV ROSENWAKS, WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE: I always worry about a fee being coercive. I want that patient who goes through egg donation to do it for the right reason.</s>FEYERICK (on camera): Do you ever think about the possibility that a child with half your genetic makeup will be out there somewhere?</s>COAHRAN: I mean, I think it's always in the back of your head for any egg donor or sperm donor or anybody, for that matter. I just think it's a piece of them now. I don't really consider like, oh, that's that's half of me.</s>FEYERICK (voice-over): And right now, she doesn't think her feelings about that will change. She may even consider donating again, after she has her own kids. Deborah Feyerick, CNN, Colorado Springs, Colorado.</s>LIN: You can see more of Deborah Feyerick's reports on "PAULA ZAHN NOW." That's weeknights at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pacific. 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