The Goose Who Lays the Golden Egg

In current times, having sex is no longer the only way to conceive a baby. Thanks to modern science, women can either use their own eggs or someone else's. A real relationship with the baby's father is no longer necessary. If problems occur in a real relationship, like the woman cannot make a baby from her own eggs, she and her partner can always find someone else's. People can also be extremely picky when it comes to where the eggs come from. According to a blog titled "Eggonomics 101" written by William Saletan from Slate, women with higher SAT scores get more money when they sell their eggs. Is intelligence actually in the genetic code? I always thought intelligence depended on the person and what they learn from their surroundings. It is not a hard thing to understand that people what smarter children. Everyone always wants the good stuff no matter what it is, a car, a house, clothes, a new baby. If the eggs' original "mother" is smart, I guess the eggs themselves will be, too. Before reading this article, I thought people who were interested in this process only could choose physical traits, like hair and eye color. Now, it is possible to choose mental attributes as well as long as the genetic lottery works out in their favor. This woman has brown hair and brown eyes and a SAT score of 2350. The eggs go to the highest bidder. Aaron Levine, a professor at Georgia Tech, started to analyze the popularity of smarter eggs. He found that 63 out of more than 100 ads for egg donations had a required minimum SAT score. Ads that offered over $10,000 had appearance and ethnicity requirements. One ad stated that a woman would get a little over $3,000 more for every 100 points she was over the SAT requirement. Nobody wants a rotten egg.