JPost: Another Landmark Case Decided in Israel - An Egg Donor is Not The Mom.

JPost Article Of Special Interest to Jewish Parents via Egg Donation and Surrogacy.
..."Further, the ministry argued that Israeli law provides that in cases of egg donation, only the birth mother is considered the mother of a baby, not the egg donor."
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/NYCAbout.aspx
Sara Axel
516-967-7430
Saxel95@aol.com

Sperm-donor children face challenges in learning their medical history - The Washington Post

I don't disagree with the reasons for wanting medical information from donors, but the last statement of the article Is kind of ridiculous if you ask me. Who has any say in what situation they are born into?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/sperm-donor-children-face-challenges-in-learning-their-medical-history/2011/07/01/gIQAX9hwzK_story_1.html

Sperm Donor Tv Show Clips

MAYBE I'LL JOIN THE DSR WHEN WE MEET WENDY IN PERSON AT THE NYC GATHERING DINNER ON OCTOBER 17,2011....


FROM WENDY KRAMER:
Our sperm donor tv show airs this week (these times are Eastern, check your local listings for the Style Network).


This show gives the public the unique opportunity to see how donor conceived people, their parents and grandparents, and a donor and his fiancée', redefine family as they connect with one another.

http://www.mystyle.com/mystyle/b7656_74_kids_more_on_way_style_presents.html


Tuesday, Sep 27, 6:00 am, 9:00 pm
Wednesday, Sep 28, 12:00 am, 4:00 pm, 11:00 pm
Thursday, Sep 29, 2:00 am, 12:00 pm, 7:00 pm


Promo: http://youtu.be/Ri1_wHySaxk


Two clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNX3zErjqww
http://youtu.be/oK1s1LM1Hno


Wendy Kramer
www.donorsiblingregistry.com
303-258-0902


"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other wings." - Hodding Carter

U.S. fertility specialist says hysteria over egg donation unfounded

Dr Stillman of Shady Grove defends the industry.


"He called for a number of universal standards to be put in place over the under-regulated egg donation industries in both Canada and the U.S.


Among them, he suggested a national donor registry that sets a limit on the number of times a woman could donate eggs; standardized informed consent on how many eggs a doctor can harvest; pre and post-psychological and medical checkups and standardized prices for egg donation."


Sounds pretty reasonable and open-minded to me. Very nice to hear from someone from within the industry.


Jennifer Lahl, on the other hand,
Is quoted as saying that ivf "has created a society ok with 'babies without sex'."


She said it when I asked her at the screenings of Eggsploitation on Feb 3rd, that its not just donor ivf that she wants to stop, she would like to see an end to all ivf.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/touch/story.html?id=5444477

Radio Boston:The Thorny Issues Of The Fertility Industry,the subject of a new reality TV show set to air on the Style channel next week, “Style Exposed: Sperm Donor.”

The subject of a new reality TV show set to air on the Style channel next week, "Style Exposed: Sperm Donor", discussed on Radio Boston.


Should donors be allowed anonymity? Should there be a limit to how much money donors receive, or the number of times they donate? And, in the Internet age, how much should donor children be allowed to know about their true genetic backgrounds?


Guests:


Debora L. Spar, president, Barnard College; author, "The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception"


Liz Coolidge, coordinator, Alternative Insemination Program and LGBT Family and Parenting Services, Fenway Health

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2011/09/21/the-thorny-issues-of-the-fertility-industry

Conversation with Amy Demma on NPR Program and Donor Anonymity

Good questions as always, Amy. Is the broad range of perspectives on the meaning of egg donors+egg donation a reflection on the deeper meaning of motherhood in general and is there a different set of complexities involved in de than there is in ds? Is it simply less black+white for de than ds?


Please see Amy's comment to this post. Thanks Amy, 

Amy Demma Comments on NPR Program

I am convinced that we will see these same stories as the egg donor conceived population matures. Why are we not talking, in a broader context about what we can learn from past years of both adoption and sperm donor practices? Are we sticking out heads in the sand? Is better educating donors about social/legal implications the answer?

New York, NY: 'The ethics of telling children if they were donorconceived', Sept 15

Found out about this too late to attend but please do report back if you can. I wonder what would be unethical, very interested to hear about this perspective.


The ethics of telling children if they were donor conceived
Speaker: John Appleby, Welcome Trust Fellow in Bioethics, Cambridge
University, UK


Sept 15/11. 6:00-7:30pm. Columbia University, Morningside Campus, New York
NB. The following location are both given in various notices about this
event, so check with Meghan Sweeney, to be sure which one is correct before
going:
* Hamilton 516
* Fayerweather 310


Presented by The Columbia Master of Science in Bioethics program
RSVP: Meghan Sweeney, ms4184@columbia.edu

A conversation in the UK.Was it right to lift anonymity for egg donors?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/newsdebate/f/t-10236213/p-1/index.html

OTHER THAN THAT LAST POST, I DO TAKE THIS ALL QUITE SERIOUSLY

See my post of August 13th. I have feelings about babies, children, adults, donors, surrogates, parents, families, medical ethics. My feelings did not end with the end of my fertility journey. I care how people are treated and I always have. Can I say this any more strongly?


There must be some way to balance the portrayal of the fertility industry other than blogging and one page statements by the organizations and individual insiders.


The mental health of the families already created by Third Party Reproduction is at stake. I'd like to see just one of them make a proactive statement about the less-than-positive outcome of full disclosure and stop talking about privacy vs secrecy and instead examine why its still not safe to do so.