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. Link to the article here.
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 Article
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 […]
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 […]