Egg Donation and Surrogacy

Self proclaimed “fertility planner” Angie Best-Boss, founder of My Fertility Plan, is quoted in the Washington Times (“Having a baby in the fertility maze: new specialty guides for parents”), regarding the value of her services:
“This is an industry that is not regulated at all. What you can’t get on [...] Continue Reading…

Today’s New York Times article (“Building a Baby, with Few Ground Rules”) describes cases that went wrong, even though it mentions in passing that most surrogacies work out just fine. I hope it does not discourage intended parents from pursuing surrogacy, or just make surrogacy appear unseemly in the eyes of [...] Continue Reading…

Last week we announced the launch of four new locations for NAFG, in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami and Washington, DC.

We believe that by expanding our pool of egg donors, gestational carriers, and clients, it will be even easier for donors, recipients, gestational carriers and intended parents to take advantage of [...] Continue Reading…

A story ran on Tuesday about a panel at Barnard College which sought to raise questions about the cost and benefit in ongoing debates over egg donation.

Unless these quotations are wrong (and they may indeed be, if Barnard’s student journalism is as poorly researched as this panel discussion), these [...] Continue Reading…

The Washington Times has run an article, “Our bodies, our sales: No windfalls in plasma, egg donations” stating that while egg donation and surrogacy may provide financial payoffs, the criteria and long-term implications should be taken into consideration.  Kathy Benardo, director of the NAFG egg donor program, is quoted [...] Continue Reading…

(Article in New Scientist: “Cheap IVF offers hope to childless millions”)

Despite the public perception that Africa is overpopulated, the majority of infertile couples reside in Third World countries, especially in Africa. The causes of infertility in Africa are much different from those in Europe and the US. In my [...] Continue Reading…

New York State’s 11-year, $600 million stem cell research initiative was approved as part of last year’s state budget; now labs can pay women to donate their eggs for research.  We are not sure yet what portion of the budget will fund the study of human oocytes (eggs), how [...] Continue Reading…

I review about one hundred egg donor applications a week. Of those I receive, only about three or four get posted on our database. Some very good candidates never get posted because we don’t have good photos of them. Even the best candidates cannot be matched without good photos.

We [...] Continue Reading…

Northeast Assisted Fertility Group has been featured in a front page story in the Boston Globe, dated April 7, 2009.  This is just the latest in what has been an ongoing public dialogue about the “surge” in egg donation.

Boston Globe: “Recession spurs egg and sperm donations”
“What we’ve seen is [...] Continue Reading…

Discussing Madonna’s adoption of another child from Malawi with Jane Velez-Mitchell, around 7:25 PM.

Go to CNN.com for a transcript.