Many egg-donor recruiters ignore ethical standards
According to a survey published in Fertility and Sterility, about a third of about 100 donor recruitment organizations studied do not adhere to the ASRM’s ethical guidelines. These guidelines include the minimum age of 21 for egg donors, the cap on donor compensation of 10K, and a compensation rate not based on donor characteristics or […]
On ‘Do Egg Donors Lie?’ By Jenna Marotta
Despite its provocative title (“Do Egg Donors Lie?“) this article was fair, but more interesting to me were the comments, which could not have been a clearer demonstration on how to separate the egg donation myth from the egg donation reality. Throughout, ignorant, typically negative comments from women who have only read or heard about […]
International Egg Donation and Surrogacy Program to Launch
NAFG has launched a specialized International Program offering comprehensive egg donation and surrogacy programs for citizens of the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and beyond. The International Program offers one-stop customized assistance, including: • access to our exclusive database of highly desirable egg donors• matching service with our pool of carefully selected gestational carriers (surrogate mothers)• help […]
ASRM Guidelines on Egg Donor Compensation Challenged in Lawsuit
We refer throughout our site (see Conceiving With Donor Eggs) and on our blog to the ASRM’s [American Society for Reproductive Medicine] guidelines for egg donor compensation, first established in the year 2000 and restated in 2007. Among other recommendations, they claim that egg donor compensation over $10,000 is, in their estimation, “inappropriate.” Any member of […]
Robert Wood Johnson study on egg donor satisfaction
Here is a positive and accurate article on egg donation, demonstrating that egg donors find the experience rewarding: Egg donors happy they helped, small study finds. An excerpt from the article: “Up until now we’ve known that donors are by and large very satisfied by their experience when it takes place, and now we see that […]
The latest on Egg Donor Compensation
Yet another reaction to the Hastings Center report, this time in the New York Times (“Payment Offers to Egg Donors Prompt Scrutiny”). Here’s the shocker: people are willing to pay more for highly desirable egg donors! This is hardly news, although it is reported as such. These outrageous offers get publicity, but they are far from […]
Barnard College Holds Panel on Egg Donation
A story ran on Tuesday about a panel at Barnard College which sought to raise questions about the cost and benefit in ongoing debates over egg donation. Unless these quotations are wrong (and they may indeed be, if Barnard’s student journalism is as poorly researched as this panel discussion), these Barnard gals don’t really understand egg donation. […]
Egg Donation & the Economy: Washington Times
The Washington Times has run an article, “Our bodies, our sales: No windfalls in plasma, egg donations” stating that while egg donation and surrogacy may provide financial payoffs, the criteria and long-term implications should be taken into consideration. Kathy Benardo, director of the NAFG egg donor program, is quoted throughout this article on the economy’s […]
New York Women Can Now Be Paid to Donate Eggs for Research Purposes
New York State’s 11-year, $600 million stem cell research initiative was approved as part of last year’s state budget; now labs can pay women to donate their eggs for research. We are not sure yet what portion of the budget will fund the study of human oocytes (eggs), how the oocyte donors will be recruited, […]
Want to Be an Egg Donor? Good Photos are Key!
I review about one hundred egg donor applications a week. Of those I receive, only about three or four get posted on our database. Some very good candidates never get posted because we don’t have good photos of them. Even the best candidates cannot be matched without good photos. We just added “Photo Submission Guidelines” […]
