Earlier this month the HFEA announced that in most circumstances donors would still be able to place conditions on what kind of family their donation goes to,. This was reviewed following concerns that some donors were restricting use of their donation to heterosexual couples or people of the same religion as the donor. The conditions …
Monthly Archive: July 2011
Jul
18
Reviewing practice with the ten family limit
The HFEA has begun to announce the outcomes of the Donation Review which has been running for most of the last year. This week it announced findings and recommendations on the number of families that donors can help. Up until now donors have been able to help ten families. Due to the logistics of egg …
Jul
13
Please support Selina!
Today, Selina Warner is starting a (long!) sponsored bike ride around Scotland. She is so close to her target – please help support her fundraising for the Trust. Life doesn’t always work out the way you think it will. There are diversions, crossroads and sometimes an enormous boulder can block your path! This is how …
Jul
11
Ask Dr Ruth
Dear Dr Ruth I would like to know about sperm count and motility, volume, etc. What is the average sperm count? How is this affected by freezing sperm? How likely is it that my sperm will survive freezing? Does a high sperm count mean I am more fertile? John These may sound like very straightforward …
Jul
04
Autobiography of a sperm donor
By Steve Mayne During 2007, whilst my wife was pregnant with our second child, we happened to catch a repeat of the BBC3’s ‘The Great Sperm Crisis’, a documentary which outlined the shortage of sperm donors in the UK. At the time we were also aware of friends and family who were not having quite …