Placenta Sales: Prices, C-Sections and Ethical Questions
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So there are companies that come in to take women's placentas and use them for pharmaceuticals, for beauty products, for stem cells, basically medical procedures. They're valued at a lot of money.
I've heard $50,000. I've heard $500,000.
I've heard- That much for a placenta? For a placenta. I've also heard that they're more valuable when they're a C-section.
Why? Because they don't go through the vaginal canal, so they're not as, quote, contaminated, so they can charge more for it.
So you mean to tell me that a company will pay 50,000 or above- Different, mm-hmm ... for a woman's placenta- Mm-hmm ... and pay more if they are not given birth vaginally, and is that why so many women are being forced into C-sections?
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