As IVF using frozen eggs has become more successful, the numbers of those donating eggs is on the rise – but women need to be aware of the potential downsides, experts say.
If you are a woman aged between 18 and 35, you may have recently seen adverts urging you to donate your eggs to a fertility clinic, to help couples who need IVF to have a child.
Until recently egg donation was much less common than sperm donation, as it is a more complex medical process. But technological advances have boosted the success rate of egg freezing. And this means that frozen human eggs are now being increasingly harvested, traded and shipped all over the world. The trade in human eggs is becoming big business.
But for the women who choose to become egg donors, or freeze their eggs for their own future use, the collection process can be arduous and cause painful side effects — and campaign groups claim that advert campaigns for egg donations don’t make this clear.
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