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Embryo donation

Sources of embryo donors

There are two sources for obtaining embryos for embryo donation. The main source is infertile couples who have completed their families through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment and have spare embryos frozen. They donate their spare embryos because they want to help other infertile couples for whom they feel great empathy. All embryo donors in the United Kingdom are altruistic volunteers (no financial gains to the donors in giving their embryos). The selling of embryos per se is ethically unacceptable.

Another method of obtaining embryos is by separate egg donation and sperm donation, which are then mixed and fertilized. As with embryo donors, the woman should be above the age of 18 and younger than 36 years and the man should be between 18-55 years. The donor must have no history of mental disorders, or a family history of genetic or inheritable diseases. Pregnancy as a result of eggs donated from older women carries an in creased risk of the child having a chromosomal abnormality such as Down's syndrome.

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User Contributed Notes

Dr Samuel Marcus 09-Feb-2004 13:00
`The UK government is to change the law which safeguards the anonymity of couples who have donated their embryos to childless couples, giving their children the right to know their genetic parents. Ms Melanie Johnson, the UK minister of Public Health, reported that the new regulations will not be retrospective and that the identities of couples who had already been donors would not be disclosed.`

Last updated: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 - 14:24:04
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