Ireland’s Special Rapporteur on child protection has expressed ‘profound concern’ that the complete lack of legislation on assisted reproduction in Ireland is not in the best interests of the child. Geoffrey Shannon, a lawyer who specialises in child law, is concerned about a number of issues relating to egg and sperm donation. Egg and sperm …
Monthly Archive: November 2011
Nov
15
Some job!
Rene Ameling, in her book Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm, explores the different approaches which US agencies use to recruit egg donors and sperm donors. In a recent YouTube interview for Yale University, she explains that women donors tend to downplay their role in creating a pregnancy, arguing that they just …
Nov
07
Ask Dr Ruth: OHSS
Fears over “intensive farming of eggs” as reported in the Daily Telegraph this month must be a worry for all women having IVF, not just women offering to donate eggs. This is however alarmist reporting and doesn’t really explain the true situation: Each menstrual cycle a woman has a number of immature eggs waiting to …