2. A big business in the United States is having fertile women donate their eggs

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2. A big business in the United States is having fertile women donate their eggs. Their eggs are then implanted into the infertile woman. The infertile woman is then capable of being impregnated and giving birth. Some of the facilities performing these services strictly limit the desired characteristics with respect to the donor. Other facilities allow the donee' s to come up with a laundry list of desired characteristics (eg: eye color, hair color, high IQ of donor, etc.). If you were a legislator passing a law to regulate this industry, what are some of the concerns that you might raise? Does a legislature have the right to limit the types of contracts people can enter into?

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Some of the concerns regarding the controlled genetic engineering of population are:

Since such contacts occur with legal consent from both donors and receivers, there is no specific law to regulate them unless we can charge either parties with proof of forced consent, mental instability or other factors that declare any contract null and void.

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