There was press coverage over the weekend about a UK egg donor agency which has been leafleting students at Cambridge University to try and recruit egg donors. The tabloid coverage was yawningly predictable – vulnerable young students being enticed to sell their eggs...
Following her article written for our blog back in August last year, Kriss Fearon from the National Gamete Donation Trust has asked us to post this message about the important research the NGDT is doing about egg and sperm donors’ experiences, and how you can still...
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week's Bionews about UK law in disputed known donation cases. Reviewing lessons learned from several recent cases which have found their way to the family court after disputes arose between parents and known donors, she...
The courts are all talking about same sex parenting disputes. The Court of Appeal has this week been hearing from a donor applying for contact with his biological son against a lesbian couple who say they feel “bitterness and betrayal” (the case has not yet been...
The HFEA has been reviewing the rules for egg and sperm donation in the UK and has announced its first set of decisions this month. The basic news so far is that little is set to change. There will be no change to the current rule allowing donors to place any...
We have written an article for Ova magazine about UK law on sperm donation. Natalie explains how the rules work and what information you are entitled to - depending on the date you were conceived, and expresses her hope that as there is more openness about donor...
Today marks an important step in English fertility law, with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 – the first major review of UK fertility law for 19 years – coming into force. Our website has been fully updated to take account of all the changes which...
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week's Bionews about the new embryo storage regulations. Originally planned as a call on the government to amend the proposed new regulations to ensure that a group of precious embryos were not excluded from the new rights...
We welcome the Department of Health’s announcement today that embryos which exceed their five year storage period before 1 October 2009 will not now have to be destroyed (article in the Times today). We have been in contact with the Department of Health on this issue...
The media has featured a case we are acting in involving a couple from Gloucester who are fighting to save their stored embryos. A question of timing means that Mr and Mrs Gladwin do not benefit from fertility law regulations which would otherwise allow them to store...