Egg donation offers thousands of U.S. couples the opportunity to start a family, but the industry has a dark side.
Egg donation offers thousands of U.S. couples the opportunity to start a family, enabling them to carry a child when their own eggs cannot be used. However, while the process brings joy to so many new parents, the egg donation industry has a dark side.In her new book, Eggonomics, medical anthropologist Diane Tober lifts the lid on the rarely told reality of egg donation.
'Some clinics and agencies encourage donors to continue to donate well beyond the ASRM recommend cycle limit of six in a lifetime,' Tober said. 'One donor in my study donated 19 times! If we had a system to track donor cycles these kinds of things wouldn't happen.'I've also seen donors hormonally stimulated to produce massive quantities of eggs in a single cycle.
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