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• Genetic Mom Gets OK to Adopt Baby Carried by Partner

  It happens every day - kids get adopted. In forward thinking parts of the country, they even get adopted by members of same sex couples.  But this was a first. A woman who supplied an egg so her female partner could carry their baby has secured the right to adopt her own genetic child - and there was no dispute between the two parties. No divorce, no acrimoney. This was all about protecting the child.  Surprised this hasn't happened before? Read More... Posted Apr 15 2009, 09:31 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, Lesbians, Egg donation, surrogacy, Jeanne Sager, same sex marriage, surrogate, defense of marriage act, egg donor, same sex parents

• Exploited and Discarded? Seeking Protection for Egg Donors

  The new parents beam, the babies gurgle and coo, and People magazine takes a picture of yet another family made possible by egg donation (you don't think all those 45-year-old actresses are just having twins by some crazy coincidence, do you?). But what happens to the woman whose biological material helped make it all possible? Her job done, the egg donor typically recedes into the background, a check for $5,000 (or more, or less) in her hand, gone without a trace.  Read More... Posted Apr 07 2009, 01:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: infertility, sperm, Time Magazine, fertility, Egg donation, DNA, egg donor, uterus, in vitro, advanced reproductive technology, uterine cancer, genetic material

• Bad Economy Means More Eager Egg Donors

  One commodity in these trying economic times that is still in high demand is fertility. And more women than ever before are hoping to cash in on their eggs, with Good Morning America reporting a 30 to 40 percent increase in egg donor applicants. Experts warn that infertile couples should be particularly careful in choosing an egg donor agency, since such a huge increase in women looking to donate means a higher risk of lower donor standards. Read More... Posted Oct 27 2008, 03:45 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: youtube, money, eggs, Egg donation, Good Morning America, economy, egg donor, sperm donation, on the rise

• My Mother Was an Egg Donor

  How would you feel if, out of the blue, you learned that those triplets you grew up playing with were technically your half-siblings? This was the subject of a recent question posed to Slate’s Dear Prudence column. The writer, a college student, recently learned that his mother had her eggs harvested and donated to an infertile couple who are close friends of the writer’s family. This knowledge turned his world upside down. Read More... Posted Aug 18 2008, 02:00 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: mother, sperm, eggs, in-vitro fertilization, parent, conceive, donate, family friends, half-siblings, harvest, egg donor