Do we Know Enough About the Risks of Donating Eggs?
By Judy Norsigian,
Infertility Family Research Registry
| 03. 26. 2014
As the demand increases for young women to provide their eggs for both fertility and research purposes, the lack of adequate long term safety data is an issue being raised by all those concerned about this gap in our medical knowledge. The Infertility Family Research Registry (IFRR -
www.ifrr-registry.org) offers the opportunity to address this gap and learn much more about the impact of so-called “egg donation” – but only if young women know about this voluntary registry and its potential value.
What does it mean for a young woman’s future fertility or her longer term risk of cancer and other health problems if she provides eggs repeatedly, especially within a short period of time? We simply don’t know enough…and this means that young women still do not have the information they need to make evidence-based choices or give truly informed consent.
In early 2013, three women formed
We Are Egg Donors, the first-ever self-help advocacy group created by women who themselves provided eggs (
http://weareeggdonors.com/pages/about-us/). Today, these women are conducting in-depth interviews with other egg donors...
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