Professor Robert Winston, one of the UK’s fertility experts, has accused fertility clinics of exploiting women by offering them cheaper IVF in return for their eggs.
Speaking to the London Evening Standard last week, Lord Winston said that egg-sharing schemes were ‘a very bad idea’ and that it’s an easy way to exploit women who want IVF treatment.
Egg-sharing schemes have been introduced by many fertility clinics in the UK, including here at Manchester Fertility Services, as a way of helping both women who need IVF but can’t afford private treatment, and those who need to use
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Is egg-sharing exploiting the infertile?
Friday, February 4th, 2011Russian women set to meet demand for donor eggs
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010Russian women are set to fulfil the demand for donor eggs in the UK after the HFEA granted a UK fertility clinic permission to import eggs from a Moscow-based...
Read More »UK’s first prosecution for illegal sperm donor website
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010Two men have been convicted of running an illegal online business which provided sperm for women to inseminate at home. The website, ‘Fertility1st’ – which used to be known as ‘Sperm Direct’ and then ‘First4Fertility’ offered to courier fresh sperm from donors listed on the site direct to recipients in return for...
Read More »What happens to unused embryos?
Monday, August 23rd, 2010According to a recent press report, British couples who went for fertility treatment in Spain could have had their embryos donated to other couples without their...
Read More »Why do we have a shortage of egg and sperm donors?
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010In the UK we have a massive male student population, all short of cash. So why are there so few sperm donors? And surely, there are plenty of women out there who want to donate their eggs? Unfortunately not. Firstly, men don’t get paid for donating their sperm – and likewise women donating their...
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