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India tightened its egg donation rules, creating a vibrant black market for sellers

India radically tightened its rules on egg donation to make it altruistic, but that move triggered a vibrant black market for human eggs.

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Diaa Hadid chiefly covers Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR News. She is based in NPR's bureau in Islamabad. There, Hadid and her team were awarded a Murrow in 2019 for hard news for their story on why abortion rates in Pakistan are among the highest in the world.

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