Will egg donations become paid offerings
Filed under: IVF — Alan @ 2:05 pm
The United States has a flourishing egg donation business that sees young women being paid for donating their eggs, often to pay for things like university tuition. There are also of course women in difficult financial situations who also self their eggs to clinics in order to supplement their day-to-day living.
In the UK the situation is very different as it is completely illegal for anyone to profit financially in any way from egg donation, in this country is seen very much as a selfless act of generosity rather than a business.
But now they public consultation by Nuffield Council on Bioethics is to look into the whole issue of donations, including not only eggs but organs and tissues as well. At issue is the donation of not only renewable resources such as eggs, sperm and blood was also non-renewable donations such as hearts and eyes.
This possible change of heart has come about because of a drastic shortage of all kinds of donations, currently there are over 1000 patients waiting on various transplant lists, but in 2009 there were only 3550 transplants.
There is currently a need for 500 additional sperm donors and well over 1000 egg donors per year. As the law stands at present donors are only permitted to claim very small amounts in expenses, and absolutely no kind of direct or indirect payments.
The study will look into the possibility of payments, but will also consider other, non-financial payments, such as basic thank you letters sent from recipients to the donor. However it seems that there is simply a change in official attitudes towards all kinds of donations and in particular eggs
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