chadachada123 said:
I really don't understand the comparisons to cannibalism. It's not the same in basically any sense, and certainly wouldn't carry the risks that ACTUAL cannibalism (that is, prions) would have.
Exactly, it would be the same thing as eating a regular egg, there isn't an undeveloped baby-esque entity floating around in it waiting to plop down on your plate when you crack the egg open, it'll just be (I assume) the proteins and similar things in a liquid form (and, well, half the females dna, though you probably won't be able to see it).
It's hard to say just how people would react because, for one, laying eggs would be completely normal since females would have been doing to for millenia, unless the OP meant women started laying eggs tomorrow or something. That said, most adults don't drink breast milk, because "Ewwww, bodily fluids", and pretty much anything that comes out of a human body is looked at as gross by society.
It would be interesting to see how our culture would be different, however... I mean, if you thought families were big back before the industrial revolution, you'll have a heart attack if you imagine having a baby every month (which I would think would inevitably lead to us being okay with destroying the eggs, because otherwise the population (or just the family itself) would grow beyond our ability to feed it).
TLDR: Not really sure but leaning towards "probably okay".