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Britain's oldest mother fell pregnant using a donated egg from Eastern Europe. Now the Mail reveals the terrible human cost to the donors who damage their fertility for a few pounds
Earlier this month, 62-year-old Patti Farrant posed delightedly with her new son JJ, hours after becoming Britain's oldest mother after undergoing several courses of fertility treatment. It was a picture of glowing contentedness; the miraculous gift of birth when once upon a time her age would have made it impossible.
Unpick the details of her story, though, and something else begins to emerge. Like a growing number of other British women who cannot conceive naturally, she had to travel to Eastern Europe to receive a donor egg.
In short, she had submitted her hopes and dreams to the mercies of the international egg donation trade.
In the West, this trade goes by the innocent-sounding name of 'fertility tourism'. Women like Dr Patricia Rashbrook (Patti Farrant's professional name), a child psychiatrist, pay up to £11,000 for treatment abroad in order to sidestep a British law which bans payment for egg...
Earlier this month, 62-year-old Patti Farrant posed delightedly with her new son JJ, hours after becoming Britain's oldest mother after undergoing several courses of fertility treatment. It was a picture of glowing contentedness; the miraculous gift of birth when once upon a time her age would have made it impossible.
Unpick the details of her story, though, and something else begins to emerge. Like a growing number of other British women who cannot conceive naturally, she had to travel to Eastern Europe to receive a donor egg.
In short, she had submitted her hopes and dreams to the mercies of the international egg donation trade.
In the West, this trade goes by the innocent-sounding name of 'fertility tourism'. Women like Dr Patricia Rashbrook (Patti Farrant's professional name), a child psychiatrist, pay up to £11,000 for treatment abroad in order to sidestep a British law which bans payment for egg...
