Tag Archive: anonymity

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 …

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Jan
24

You’re a stranger and you’re a friend of mine

Because of the shortage of donated eggs and sperm in the UK, it’s common for recipients to go public in their search for a donor. Often donors attracted this way donate to the couple at the top of the waiting list, pulling the recipients to the top of the queue for the next donor. This …

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