A landmark High Court ruling has given sperm donors the right to be involved in a child’s life. The judgment by the Family Division comes on the back of a complex case involving three le...
You may have read our recent blog about known sperm donation, and once again it’s come into the spotlight with a case in the Netherlands where a father is donating sperm to his son and daughter in law to enable them to have a child, because the son...
The number of people undergoing fertility treatment using donor eggs or donor sperm is on the increase, according to latest figures released by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. In 2010, 1,269 women sought fertility treatment using donor eggs, a slight increase from 1,204 women in 2009. The number of cycles using donor eggs also rose, from 1,254 in 2009 to 1,320 in 2010...
Fertility watchdog the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has revealed the first results of its consultation on sperm and egg donation. Following public responses to various issues surrounding sperm and egg donation, the first decision to be confirmed by the HFEA concerns the current family limit...
There are always plenty of media stories about the shortage of sperm donors in the UK, long waiting lists if you need to use donor sperm and the ‘falling’ numbers of sperm donors since anonymity was removed. However, HFEA figures have shown that the removal of anonymity hasn’t actually reduced the number of donors coming forward, and here at Manchester Fertility Services – unlike other sperm banks – we don’t have any waiting lists for donor sperm...
Would the fact that a conceived child has the right to know your identity as their sperm or egg donor prevent you being a donor? A recent article in the media has claimed that one particular fertility clinic now has a waiting list of over 18 months for those who need to use donor sperm to conceive, because too many people have been put off by the change in the law which came into force in 2005. And as such, patients at this clinic were resorting to sourcing sperm from abroad...
A new US documentary film ‘Donor Unknown’ has begun its tour of UK cinemas, shedding light on the cases of children who find their sperm-donor fathers. It follows the case of a man who came forward after two of his ‘donor children’ tracked each other down via a US website, donorsibling.org, which allows children born through donor sperm to find out who their siblings are...
An interesting article in a Sunday newspaper recently showed just why in the UK we won’t ever go down the route of ‘selling eggs’. It told of examples of US university students who’d managed to fund their degrees through becoming egg donors – effectively selling their eggs to pay for their education...
It often takes a personal story to make more people think about donating sperm or eggs, and recently a Stockport woman made hers public in an effort to raise awareness of the lack of egg donors. 37-year-old Sarah Johnson suffers from a rare medical condition, Turner Mosaic Syndrome, which meant she went through the menopause at just 12 years of age...
A new IVF technique known as ‘3-parent IVF’ which uses donor eggs to overcome incurable inherited conditions needs more research, says the HFEA...