One of the highest-profile online newsletters covering assisted conception is celebrating 12 years and 600 issues of publication. Bionews, published by Progress Educational Trust (PET), regularly features egg, sperm and embryo donation issues as well as news and views on genetics and stem cell research. Over the years it has published comment pieces from most …
Monthly Archive: March 2011
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28
Mar
21
Shock and awesome
Marie Stopes International, a charity giving contraception and abortion advice, has been criticised for releasing a viral video with a safe sex message aimed at teenagers: ‘One up the bum and you won’t be a mum’. Is being outrageous the most effective way to get people to listen to your message? In 2007, the NGDT …
Mar
14
Egg donation: why I gave up my right to remain anonymous
By Laura Witjens, Chair of the National Gamete Donation Trust I’ll never know what made me watch breakfast television that morning. Being a single working mother with two one-year olds, it was a luxury I could ill afford. But I did, and one of the items changed my life forever. The same day, I contacted …
Mar
07
Ask Dr Ruth
Dear Dr Ruth I became an egg donor 18 months ago. Since then I’ve been trying to get pregnant and had a miscarriage. My periods are now regular but my cycle has changed to six weeks apart. Could the egg donation have caused this? Natalie