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Writing your egg donor pen portrait

When you need to describe yourself to someone you don’t know, it can be hard to know where to start. Sometimes egg donors have trouble writing the pen portrait that’s to be passed to their donor-conceived child when they’re 18 - that blank piece of paper can be quite intimidating! - so here are some […]

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HFEA National Donation Strategy Group

In April the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) announced that they are planning to set up a new National Donation Strategy Group which is to be tasked with ‘raising awareness of donation and improving how donors are treated, whilst also protecting the interests of patients and donor conceived people’. We think that this is […]

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“Egg donation - as common as giving blood?”

The chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) wrote in the Telegraph last week that donating eggs and sperm should be something commonly considered by anyone able to do so. She further stated that donors should be welcomed at clinics, and that centres of excellence should be set up to provide a service […]

Have your say on egg donation

In January the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) launched a three month consultation programme which is open to everybody to give their opinion about egg and sperm donation. You may have read in the press that there is a current debate underway about various aspects of donation, but in particular whether egg donors should […]

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