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The Center for Bioethics and Culture has produced several documentary films which deal with different aspects of third-party reproductive ethics. The first film, Eggsploitation, discusses the risks of egg "donation" for healthy young women. Often egg donors are lured into donation by promises of money, without discussion of the risks, knowledge of the lack of any long-term studies, and without understanding of the role money plays in informed consent as well as the conflict of interest of the doctors who are using the donor simply for her eggs. The second film, Anonymous Fathers Day, discusses the difficulties encountered by donor-conceived children, now grown up and who do not have any relationship, nor possible relationship, with their biological father. This can lead to intense psychological struggles over biological identity. And the anonymous fathers also struggle with being the parent of children they will never know. The third film, Breeders: A Subclass of Women?, presents the stories of four women who made the decision to serve as surrogate mothers and one woman born of a surrogate contract pregnancy. This film addresses the questions of attitudes toward women in general ("Are women easy-bake ovens?") as well as the health and psychological risks to all involved, especially the best interest of the child(ren) born of an arranged contract...