Chris, It is my understanding that monetary compensation for a donation of breastmilk would be prohibited by US law. Some *for profit* blood/plasma collection sites get around this by stating that they're paying the donor for his/her time to come in and donate (not for the donation of the bodily fluid). Certainly milk banks could play that game too. Off hand my *guess* would be that the increased cost of paying donors would make banked milk less accessible rather than more so. I also think Dr.s and recipients may be less trusting of a system by which the donor is compensated. All and all I find it difficult to believe that UNacceptable donors (i.e. drug addicted mothers, HIV + moms, excess coffee drinkers or smokers) would be flooding sites attempting to make donations, BUT I think that is a media-hyped fear others have. Dawn Martin Austin, TX home of the Mothers' Milk Bank of Austin > I've often wonder what paying milk donors would do to the system we have > right now? How do others feel about this and at what level should/would it > be? I'm not saying how I feel one way or another....just asking and trying > to think of ways to overcome the "shortage of the precious commodity" as > Barbara so aptly put it. > -- *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html