Moral Dilemma: Selling Eggs for Money?

I can't pay for college; that's a fact. By the time I graduate, I will probably have anywhere between $30,000 and $40,000 of student loan debt on top of whatever interest rate I'll have to pay back, and that's being conservative on the estimate of what I'll be paying. Because of this lack of money my mother and I seem to have, I've been looking into alternative ways to come up with money -- preferably before September gets here.

You see, I work at a little place called Meijer. It's a grocery store and I'm a "utility worker," which is a nice way of using that outdated term "bagger." I clean restrooms, push carts, mop the floors, sweep on occasion, bag things and load them for customers, and sometimes I clean up anything from vomit to blood to human feces. Oh, it's a dream job! (I say that with the highest amount of sarcasm possible.)

I've decided that minimum wage at a job like that isn't a job at all; it's slavery. That leads me to my next thought: how am I going to pay for college without accumulating too much debt?

Well, there's always selling my ova.

Women who sell their eggs can make as much as $8000 per donation -- that would pay for an almost a whole year of my college education! This though appeals to me for a number of reasons, and turns me off at the same time. First of all, $8000 dollars is a lot for a few eggs, and I could pay for an education if I did it enough times. Unfortunately, the procedure is also uncomfortable, invasive, and time-consuming.

Donating one's eggs may present a moral and ethical concern with some of the people I know. You can never be quite sure where your donated eggs will go; they can go toward medical research or they can go to a fertility clinic to help a woman conceive when she otherwise wouldn't.

Here's another problem I have with it: knowing that I might possibly have a child out there, but that I had never met him or her, would drive me crazy. I would hate it. Some clinics allow you to choose to have the child contact you later in their life -- should the child decide to do so -- but that wouldn't be something I would want to do either. It would be weird, having a child and not having had anything to do with its conception, birth, or childhood? I don't know. I couldn't do it. Maybe if I get desperate enough.

Luckily for me, I'm not desperate yet.

(You can see a photo about the procedure here taken from MSNBC.)