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Is egg-sharing exploiting the infertile?

Posted on 4th February 2011 in Sperm Donation, Egg Donation

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 Even...

Russian women set to meet demand for donor eggs

Posted on 7th December 2010 in News, Egg Donation

Russian 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 clinic...

UK’s first prosecution for illegal sperm donor website

Posted on 22nd September 2010 in Sperm Donation, News

Two 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 payment...

What happens to unused embryos?

Posted on 23rd August 2010 in Fertility, News

According 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 consent...

Why do we have a shortage of egg and sperm donors?

Posted on 23rd February 2010 in Sperm Donation, Fertility, Egg Donation

In 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 eggs...