Um, what were they then doing with the eggs?
Fertilizing and growing them for a few months to make organs and other harvestables?
Biomedical is not that advanced yet. They probably had customers lined up and took the eggs on an ongoing basis for implantation of paying infertile women.
There are lot of people doing IVF who will pay for five figures for each egg.
Not fertilizing them - just selling the unfertilized ova to infertile couples (where the wife is eggless). The ova are then fertilized with the husband's sperm and the embryos implanted in the wife (assuming that at least her uterus is still functional) or into the womb of a paid surrogate mother who is then not genetically related to the child she later gives birth to, and which is then confiscated (as per their contract) by the paying couple.
"Making organs and other harvestables," as you suggested would also be possible, but is less likely, I'd wager.
Regards,
Just a guess but probably a big demand for surrogate moms to carry what are probably sold as “designer eggs” for all the same sex couples out there who can’t get kids naturally. Fertilize and implant in a surrogate. Surrogate mom then has no DNA connection to the child and very little legal say. Egg donor has no idea the egg ever got fertilized.
In addition to normal but infertile couples who don’t want to risk adopting kids that have fetal alcohol syndrome or other issues.
“Um, what were they then doing with the eggs?”
That is the 64 Thousand dollar question.