Donor Egg Decision Making Seminar: Saturday, February 7
NAFG President Sanford Benardo will be participating in a “Donor Egg Decision Making Seminar” sponsored by the Baystate Chapter of Resolve. It will take place at the Children’s Hospital in Waltham, MA on Saturday, February 7 from 9:30 AM to 5 PM. Sanford will speak on “Finding a Donor and the Legal Issues” between 11:15 […]
CBS story on Egg Donation in New York
Tonight, Cindy Hsu of CBS New York contributed yet another story about the growing popularity of egg donation, featuring Northeast Assisted Fertility Group’s egg donor program. “If you’re motivated you can do a wonderful thing and help somebody and help yourself at the same time, but do not think that this is a way to walk into $10,000 […]
Boston Herald on the Surge in Egg Donation
This time it’s in the Boston Herald. Sanford Benardo is quoted: “Benardo said the egg donation and surrogacy agency has seen applications from potential egg donors double — the [egg donation] agency pays female donors a flat rate of $10,000 after a woman’s eggs are retrieved.” The article acknowledges that making money through egg donation is […]
NAFG Introduces Its New Egg Donor Database
Now that our database has grown to include about 80 egg donor candidates, we have made it much easier to navigate and search information. Recipients can always view all the egg donors at once (organized with the most recent additions on top), but now they can also search by criteria: location, eye color, hair color, […]
CNN’s Egg Donor T-Shirt: For Serious Egg Donation Fans!
CNN’s Anderson Cooper: Story on Egg Donation
Northeast Assisted Fertility Group to be Featured on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” Next Week – Story on Egg Donation <Click to watch the CNN video, “Egg Donors on the Rise”> Now CNN has picked up on the “surge” in egg donation and they invited Sanford and me to participate in the story. They were especially interested […]
Beyond Compensation: Egg Donor Expenses & Financial Liability (3 of 3)
In Beyond Compensation: Egg Donor Expenses and Financial Liability (2 of 3), we listed a few reasons why we do not support penalty clauses in egg donor contracts. Here are a few more. Penalty clauses in egg donor contracts are unduly coercive. Although unenforceable, they do serve a psychological purpose: coerce the donor into compliance. Reasonable […]
Beyond Compensation: Egg Donor Expenses & Financial Liability (2 of 3)
In Beyond Compensation: Egg Donor Expenses and Financial Liability (1 of 3), we claimed to stand against penalty clauses in egg donor contracts. Here is why. Penalty clauses in egg donor contracts are unfair. The penalty, if enforced, could well add up to thousands of dollars, which the egg donor very likely does not have. Should […]
Beyond Compensation: Egg Donor Expenses & Financial Liability (1 of 3)
Apart from egg donor compensation (at a limit of $10,000 for her time and effort, according to the ASRM), our egg donors are entitled to reimbursement for other expenses incurred by the process. For local donors, these can include gas, tolls, parking, and lost wages for the retrieval day (which requires a full day off from […]
Conceiving Through Egg Donation (10 of 10): Signing the Contract
Click here for Conceiving Through Egg Donation (9 of 10): Confidentiality and Anonymity. Donor Reserving, Screening, and the Egg Donation Contract Once you’ve made your choice, signed the contract with the egg donation agency, and paid your fee, your clinic can start the screening process. The agency will typically send an official “match sheet” (with the names of […]
