"It's important to understand that if a young woman walks into a clinic and says she wants to be an egg donor, the clinic doesn't just sit down and say, 'Sure' and hand them money, " said Dr. Mark Hornstein, president of the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology.

CNN: Dim economy drives women to donate eggs for profit

We remain the most charitable people on earth, but it's quite simply not in our DNA to countenance the actions of Suleman, a woman who chose to be artificially inseminated, and who chose to practice what is called "assisted reproductive technology" in order to put what she presumed to be six more children on this earth that she can't care for economically.

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