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Michelle Lambrechts is a police officer and one-time egg donor in Belgium. She is also the founder of Ik Zit Met Een Ei, a Belgian nonprofit that advocates for egg donors. (The name is a Dutch play on words: literally “I’m sitting with an egg,” idiomatically “I’ve got a problem.”)
On June 10, 2026, Michelle and two other Belgian donors, Inge and Annelies, submitted a joint formal advisory to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives’ Committee on Equal Opportunities. It proposes a dedicated legal procedure for egg donation. As far as they know, this is the first time egg donors have addressed the Belgian legislature directly and collectively. They were not spoken about by clinicians and academics on their behalf; they spoke for themselves.
Michelle’s advocacy started three years ago, when she ended up in intensive care after complications from her egg donation.
Michelle donated her eggs in March 2023, at a friend’s request. Three days later, she was admitted to a hospital. Twelve days after her egg retrieval, she woke up in intensive care with a tube in her...