egg donation

The filmmakers promote it as “the fertility industry’s dirty little secret.” In the trailer, several former egg donors describe horrific experiences resulting in permanent health damages and how they were lured into making poor decisions with offers of hard to resist compensation. The music, ironically scored by the group Thieves and Liars, is dark and foreboding, reminiscent of a horror film. And the name of the documentary – Eggsploitation -- implies its intentions, which is to let the world know about the “trade” in human eggs and “older women with money targeting younger women.”

Your expert gynaecologist or fertility specialist has advised egg donation to get pregnant. It may take a while for recipients to be totally ready to take this important step in their lives - to conceive. Proceeding to consider South African egg donors may be a solution and the answer to a mircale.

There is an abundance of available South African egg donors to assist in a phenomenally special manner - to give, to give life, to make a difference and to respond to a deed that makes them feel that they are truely doing some thing so significant.

Many men and women who long for a baby - but are beset by fertility problems - will read with envy the news that Samantha Cameron has given birth to a baby girl and say a silent prayer that they too will be so blessed.
Yet the fact remains that, in many cases, their prayers will not be answered because of a chronic shortage in the number of people willing to donate eggs or sperm to help them conceive.

We are so proud and excited to be in the South African egg donation industry. This ensures high ethics, ability to find top egg donor, access to an extensive egg donor database of hundreds of egg donors and professional egg donor services.

Currently the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA) imposes a £250 cap on payments so as to avoid commercialising the procedure.
But the low payment is thought to be behind a shortage in egg and sperm donation which is driving infertile women and men to overseas – often unregulated – clinics, according to research.

Now the HFEA is considering adopting the Spanish system which would see the payment cap lifted to £800.

"We want to review egg donation," Professor Lisa Jardine, the chair of the HFEA told the Sunday Times.

(repost from my personal blog www.tertia.org)

When I first started the egg donor and surrogacy program here in South Africa, I would get enquiries from gay couples and singles from overseas. Many of them would start their email with "I am not sure whether you deal with gay couples...." and the first few times I was all like "huh? What do you mean?" Of course I deal with gay couples, why wouldn't I? And then I realized how often gay couples were discriminated against. And what a tough time they had accessing the things we take for granted.

Egg donation in South Africa is a very legal and ethical matter. A legal egg donation agency offers an above board service to recipients of donor eggs. This is a relationship between the egg donation recipient and the egg donor agency.