Exploring the beliefs and experiences of potential egg share donors

Rapport, Frances

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02670.x

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“…There are indications that some egg sharers are reluctant to do so but that they go ahead because of their desire to have a child (Rapport, 2003). The prediction has been made that if these women could obtain their treatment without offering their oocytes, egg-sharing would be less attractive for them (Blyth, 2004).…”

Section: Egg-sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Balancing ethical criteria for the recruitment of gamete donors

Pennings

Vayena²,

Ahuja³

2012

Reproductive Donation

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Section: Egg-sharingmentioning

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Balancing ethical criteria for the recruitment of gamete donors

Pennings

Vayena²,

Ahuja³

2012

Reproductive Donation

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“…Egg sharing has been reported in Australia [12], Belgium [13][14][15], Canada [16], Greece [12], Spain [12], the UK [12,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]103,104] and the USA [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37], and was practiced in Italy until legislation passed in 2004 that prohibited all forms of donor and third-partyassisted-conception procedures [38][39]. It is the sole legally permissible form of egg donation in Denmark [3,105] and Israel [40].…”

Section: Egg Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To date, empirical studies of views and experiences of participants in egg-sharing programs are confined to surveys undertaken by a single London clinic [17,18] and two small-scale exploratory studies reporting on in-depth interviews with donors [22,24], the latter including the donor's partner. These have investigated donors' motivations and decision-making processes, their perceptions of egg sharing, how they would anticipate dealing with eventual treatment failure and how information regarding egg sharing may be managed within their families.…”

Section: Concerns Regarding Egg Sharingmentioning

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“…What has clearly been absent from this debate so far has been the views of egg-share donors themselves and whether, at the time of undergoing the procedure and on subsequent reflection, they consider that their consent was properly obtained. The current limited evidence from empirical studies that have asked participants in eggsharing programs indicates that donors themselves feel equipped to make valid choices regarding participating in egg sharing [17][18][19]24] -and some women who contemplated egg sharing decide not to proceed after they have had the opportunity to consider its implications for them [22]. Consequently, egg sharing is not simply perceived as an offer that is 'too good' for potential donors to refuse.…”

Section: Compromised Consentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participants in egg sharing arrangements themselves have distinguished between egg sharing and the sale of gametes, emphasizing the importance of a desire to help others in a similar position as well as themselves [15,17,18,22,24,56].…”

Section: Egg Sharing and Egg Tradingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Egg sharing: a practical and ethical option in IVF?

Blyth¹,

Golding²

2008

Expert Review of Obstetrics & Gynecology

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Egg sharing is a procedure in which a woman who is herself undergoing assisted-conception treatment receives subsidized treatment in exchange for sharing her eggs with another woman. It has become increasingly prevalent in the UK and is the major source of donor eggs in the UK; however, its practice is controversial. Available evidence concerning the outcomes of egg sharing is limited. To date, while this has failed to provide strong empirical support for concerns that have been raised regarding egg sharing, continuing significant gaps in information regarding clinical and psycho-social outcomes remain, which mean that an informed judgment on empirical grounds cannot yet be made. Ongoing key ethical controversies focus on the impact of egg sharing on the commodification of human gametes and whether women can genuinely consent to donating their eggs under an egg-sharing scheme. KEYWORDS: commodification of gametes • decision making • donors • egg donation • egg sharing • informed consentTechnological developments in reproductive healthcare have increased the options available to people seeking to overcome fertility impairments -including treatments using gametes provided by a third party. In practice, although some jurisdictions prohibit donor remuneration, payment to 'donors' is common. Such payment necessarily confounds the accepted definition of 'donor'. In accordance with common usage in the assisted reproductive technologies (ART) literature, we have employed the terms 'donor' and 'donation' in this paper, but the reader should be aware of this caveat. While insemination of donor sperm has been used as a medicalized procedure for well over a century [1], IVF using donor eggs is a much more recent phenomenon; the first birth from such a procedure was reported in Australia in 1984, using an egg provided by an IVF patient [2]. It is quite possible, although the authors do not provide details of the arrangements under which the donation took place, therefore, that the very first reported birth through egg donation was in fact the result of egg sharing. Use of donor eggs is clinically indicated for women seeking to conceive who have experienced primary or secondary ovarian failure, who have functioning ovaries but for whom standard ovarian stimulation drug regimes have failed or where there is a risk of transmitting a serious genetic disorder to a child [3].Use of donor eggs has become especially prevalent in ART procedures for older women (i.e., women aged over 40 years), for two inter-related reasons; first, because of the significant decline in female fertility once women reach their mid30s [4] and the more rapid decline after the age of 40 years [101], and second, because the likelihood of successful embryo implantation is related to the age of the woman providing the egg rather than to the age of the woman in whom the embryo is implanted [5]. US data show that while fewer than 3% of all women undergoing an ART procedure during 2005 used donor eggs, 22% of women aged 41-42 years, 55% of women aged over 42 yea...

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Defining, Understanding, and Managing the Complex Psychological Aspects of Third-Party Reproduction

Braverman

2013

Principles of Oocyte and Embryo Donation

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Exploring the beliefs and experiences of potential egg share donors

Cited by 30 publications

References 36 publications

Balancing ethical criteria for the recruitment of gamete donors

Balancing ethical criteria for the recruitment of gamete donors

Egg sharing: a practical and ethical option in IVF?

Defining, Understanding, and Managing the Complex Psychological Aspects of Third-Party Reproduction

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