Notable News, Volume 1, Issue 2: A Donor Egg is a Donor Egg (or is it?)

Biologically, an egg may be an egg, but how these eggs are procured and handled affects the donor, the intended parent, the clinic that will ultimately be responsible for offering these eggs to patients, and the children who may never know if the medical data was accurate and cannot reach the donor as a young adult.

Considerations when importing donor eggs from third-world economies.

• Profiteering. Most imported eggs are purchased from Eastern European distributors for $6,000 – 7,500 for a cohort of 6, and some egg banks are selling them for $17,500 to $20,000. Who is making this outrageous profit of up to $15,000 per cohort?
• Commercialization of human eggs is against the intent of human trafficking legislation worldwide. Gross profits from the marketing of human body parts are universally understood as unethical.
• Source of Eggs. Egg donors in third-world economies are in the same locations where gross human trafficking violations are well documented. Is the donor coerced? Is she compensated or reimbursed according to international regulations?
• Shuffling of Eggs. These eggs are purchased from distributors who move East European eggs from various countries to many other locations, such as into Spain and then Canada, or the U.S. or the U.K. for example.
• Safety. There is no ability to monitor how these eggs are procured, how the donors are stimulated, and how the donor’s health is managed.
• Accountability. There is no way to verify the data on these eggs that fall into the lawless chasm of no documented or standardized form of accountability as eggs are shifted from country to country.
• Anonymity. There is no way to verify if the donor is Open Identity, even when some distributors charge your patient MORE for the privilege of working with an Open ID donor.
• Quality Control. Eggs are shipped out of war zones and across countries, continents, and oceans numerous times, going in and out of cryo shipping and storage tanks. The donors are blended into online rosters without clearly identifying the donor source to clinics and recipients alike.

The World Egg and Sperm Bank sets the global benchmarks for Quality and Ethics

• We do not import any donor eggs to redistribute.
• We know and personally manage each and every donor within our singular, integrated clinic.
• All of our donors live in the U.S.
• The World Egg and Sperm Bank adheres to more than 21 pieces of legislation worldwide that are subject to international audits.
• Our donors are consented to be Open Identity Donors and have been since 2012. The World Egg and Sperm Bank does not charge extra fees for Open ID donors.
• Our purpose-built database includes all identifying donor information which is internally maintained.
• The World Egg and Sperm Bank has not increased any costs to Recipients since 2013. Despite rising material and staffing costs to meet increased legislative requirements over a decade, we continue to place patient access over profitability.

We would be happy to meet with you to discuss our unique, one-of-a-kind egg bank with verifiable longevity and an excellent reputation, earned over 20 years serving IVF clinics and patients around the world. The World Egg and Sperm Bank continues to set the highest quality standards in egg and sperm donation.

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