By Cathy Sidaway, Trustee I’ve been thinking recently about the kinds of assumptions that clinics make when donors come to see them, and how different it is from their experience with patients. Like the time when I was told to prepare for a scan of my ovaries and lay down and pulled my jumper up …
Monthly Archive: July 2010
Jul
12
Poll on donor fees
The Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail is running a survey asking simply Is it morally wrong to commercialise donor conception? So far about 2/3 of respondents have replied that yes, they think it is morally wrong. Looking at the comments, in this context people take the word donation to mean something you are not …
Jul
07
How come some healthy people can’t be donors?
It sounded easy enough: she’s the right age, she fits the bill health-wise, and she has a healthy baby conceived within a few months of trying. So why isn’t she suitable to be an egg donor? It turned out that this lady in her early 30s had low levels of a hormone called AMH. Would …
Jul
01
Egg freezing
From ESHRE conference comes a research report from Belgium looking into young undergraduates’ views on egg freezing. Many of these young women said they would consider freezing eggs as a way of delaying having a family while they build a career and find the right partner. In the UK, men tend to be a couple …