Are Repeat Egg Donors Better than First-Time Egg Donors? New Vlog Entry
Some egg donor candidates choose to do it more than once: are those donors better picks for you? Kathy Benardo explains why repeat donors are sometimes but not always better.
Coming to Terms with Needing an Egg Donor
Kathy Benardo provides some encouragement for recipients who need to use an egg donor after a number of failed IVFs.
Is Donating Your Eggs Worth it?
The financial and emotion rewards of egg donation make the experience meaningful. Kathy Benardo explains.
Vlog Entry: How Much Time Does Egg Donation Take?
Kathy Benardo describes in detail the time commitment required for egg donation.
Will Being an Egg Donor Make Me Gain Weight?
The second biggest question I get from applicants is will egg donation make me gain weight: the short answer is no!
Will Being an Egg Donor Make Me Less Fertile in the Future?
The number one question donors ask is will egg donation affect their future fertility? In this video Kathy Benardo explains that egg donation does not deplete ovarian reserve.
NAFG’s View on Egg Donor Compensation
Since the year 2000, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (“ASRM”) and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (“SART”) established and maintained a limit on what they considered appropriate donor compensation (amounts more than $5,000 required “justification” and amounts above $10,000 were “not appropriate”). An antitrust lawsuit charging price fixing (Kamakahi v. American Society for […]
ASRM deletes their compensation cap from egg donor guidelines
The American Society for Assisted Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) has now deleted its compensation caps from its ethical guidelines. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/02/03/fertility-industry-group-settles-lawsuit-over-egg-donor-price-caps/?mod=wsj_valettop_email
Frozen Donor Eggs: An Emerging Market and a Word to the Wise
Now that new freezing techniques have made frozen eggs more viable, doctors and patients are eager to work them, as they offer some time and cost advantages over fresh. However, because a donor egg cycle is so costly, is it not financially practical in most cases for a clinic to do a donor egg cycle […]
I Donated My Eggs: Jezebel [http://jezebel.com/5954188/i-donated-my-eggs-for-4500]
A mixed reaction to this overall positive piece on egg donation. People object to the word “donor,” because there is compensation involved. However, an egg donor is being paid for her time and effort, not her eggs. The donor would have been paid the same no matter how many eggs were retrieved (compensation is not […]
