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The removal of donor anonymity – How it helps the ‘CARTY’ generation

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Science has ensured that we’re now able to help the vast majority of people who suffer from infertility. No longer is it something you have to cope with, now many people are able to become...

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Donating sperm or eggs to friends or family

Monday, November 15th, 2010

One of the questions we are commonly asked is what the options are if you want to donate your sperm or eggs to someone you know. Firstly, it’s not unusual for people to want to do this. Perhaps you have friends who can’t have children without using a donor egg. Or maybe you have single female friends, who want you to donate sperm to help them get...

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Egg donation plea

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

A young couple from Staffordshire turned to their local newspaper recently to try and find an egg donor. The couple have spent all of this year in second place on their local hospital waiting list for a donor egg, having been told they could be waiting an ‘indefinable’ amount of time for an egg donor to come forward due to the acute shortage of egg...

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The male view of infertility

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

One of the popular women’s weekly magazines recently ran a touching article focusing on a couple who couldn’t have children. It turned out the fertility issue lay with the husband, who had been diagnosed with a sperm...

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Should sperm and egg donors be paid?

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

One of the most controversial aspects of the current HFEA (insert link to www.hfea.gov.uk here) (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority) review is whether sperm donors and egg donors should be properly paid for their donations. Currently, payments for sperm and egg donations can only be made to cover travel costs and loss of earnings, with an overall limit of £250 for each course of...

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