Australia is not only benefiting from South Africa's brain drain, it is getting our women's eggs too. Four South African women are flying to Brisbane this month to donate their eggs to women who need them to fall pregnant.Australian law prohibits egg or sperm donors from profiting from their donation and critics say the A$2500 the South Africans will get in living expenses for a fortnight constitutes payment.The women have been recruited through a South African agency called Known Egg Donors.The agency is run by Genevieve Uys and helps South African women to donate eggs to couples in Australia, where women can wait up to six years for a donated egg.Under Australian law, egg donors cannot be anonymous because the resultant child must have the opportunity to learn who its biological parents are.Australian website SBS quoted Uys as saying:"The women are in Australia to help people; they're not there to have a holiday. It's been done all over the world, it's nothing new. It's just new for Australia."Uys runs a second organisation, Travelling Donors, that enables South African women to donate eggs to women in, among other countries, Georgia, India and Nigeria.Donors who have, or are studying for a university degree, are very popular.Attorney Neil Kirby said egg donation to women in other countries was not illegal. But payment for an egg or sperm donation was illegal in South Africa too.Ames Dhai, of the Wits University Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, said "The ethical concern is that the trip to Australia, and being paid to live there during this time, could constitute an undue incentive."Women may decide to participate in the programme against their better judgment."Fertility doctor Paul le Roux said the SA Society for Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecological Endoscopy would discuss egg donation to Australian women at its meeting this weekend...