Summary Of Young Women's Eggs: Elite And Ordinary

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The articles that I will be comparing and contrasting will be Young Women’s Eggs: Elite and Ordinary written by Elizabeth Reis in the 2011 and Three Generations of Native American Women’s Birth Experience written by Joy Harjo in 1991. The articles each have their different ways of approaching their topic but both speak of women and reproduction.
The article Young Women’s Eggs: Elite and Ordinary speaks about how the author investigates the egg "donation" industry. She explains how there is ads at ivy league universities asking young women to “donate” their eggs. It may seem very tempting and safe but this may not be the case. With this she explains the dangers that come from donating eggs, some of those being health problems such as: ovarian

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