Families considering using an egg or sperm donor should carefully consider the following:
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Alot has been written about recently about the plight of a California couple whose daughter suffers from Tay Sachs. Our prayers go out to both of them, and we would like to start a dialogue on this site to further discuss what everyone thinks.
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Troubled by the health history and backgrounds of some anonymous egg and sperm donors, leaders in the fertility industry have said in recent weeks that they would create a national registry to track donors and birth outcomes.
In response to a Dec. 9 article in The Times about a child born with a terminal genetic disease, representatives from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, a fertility industry organization, said they intend to record the histories of donors and surrogate mothers to help prevent such tragedies.
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By Mary Ellen McLaughlin
If egg donors weren’t compensated, the whole business of assisted reproductive technology would be a shadow of where it is today. “No one would [donate eggs] for free,” one donor told a writer with MSNBC. “Maybe for your sister, but not for a stranger.”
Reminder of Article: http://conceptionconnections.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/compensation-for-egg-donors/
This article is helpful in answering some of the basic questions about egg donation. Have a look at:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=4134371&page=1
Fertility doctors have denied that human eggs were mishandled
By TERI SFORZA
The Orange County Register
Prominent fertility doctors nationwide have engaged in the unauthorized and illegal sharing of human eggs for more than a decade, according to a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a defunct local firm and its egg donors.
The suit, filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Northern California, accuses the fertility industry of trying to cover up "a major medical ethics scandal" and seeks at least $5 million on behalf of Options National Fertility Registry and its donors.
It names the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology and 102 doctors as defendants.
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