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Where to Apply to Donate Eggs?
Should you apply to an IVF clinic or an egg donor agency? Kathy Benardo explains the different experiences that clincis and agencies offer.
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Anonymous vs Non-Anonymous Egg Donors: there are a range of options
Kathy Benardo explains that there is a range of options in the anonymous/ non-anonymous spectrum. It is not just a single choice between a known egg donor and an anonymous one.
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Are Repeat Egg Donors Better than First-Time Egg Donors? New Vlog Entry
Some egg donor candidates choose to do it more than once: are those donors better picks for you? Kathy Benardo explains why repeat donors are sometimes but not always better.
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Sanford Benardo Responds to Editorial Arguing Against the Child-Parent Security Act
Coming to Terms with Needing an Egg Donor
Kathy Benardo provides some encouragement for recipients who need to use an egg donor after a number of failed IVFs.
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Is Donating Your Eggs Worth it?
The financial and emotion rewards of egg donation make the experience meaningful. Kathy Benardo explains.
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Surrogacy in NY State: Sanford Benardo Editorial in New York Law Journal
Give New Yorkers the Same Reproductive Rights Found in Other States https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yorkers-same-reproductive-rights-found-020035733.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=ma
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Vlog Entry: How Much Time Does Egg Donation Take?
NYT: Embryo ‘Adoption’ Is Growing, but It’s Getting Tangled in the Abortion Debate
The number of leftover frozen embryos remaining after IVF increases year after year. The creators of these embryos (which may contain genetic material of the parents, third-party donors or in combination), extended tremendous emotional and financial resources in order to obtain the embryos, but have extra that they may not ever need (IVF typically results in more than one viable embryo).
Some may choose destroy the embryos, some may donate them for medical research and some may keep them frozen in perpetuity. A small percentage are distributed to third parties. There are two prevailing attitudes about third-party embryo distribution (it is not legal to sell embryos).
“Embryo donation” is the term used by those who view these embryos as genetic material. “Embryo adoption” is the term used by fundamentalist Christian programs and they consider these embryos as people, or in effect, babies abandoned by their parents. Currently, the latter view dominates and the great majority of federal grants are provided to these Christian programs, with federal funding in large part denied to non-Christian oriented agencies.
By recognizing embryos as full persons, embryo adoption agencies politicize the process by underscoring the right-wing Republican assertion that life begins at conception. So far they have won favor through the current administration.
Let’s hope that as more non traditional families (single, same sex) are accepted and respected, the politics can be taken out embryo donation – a process which can help so many deserving prospective parents.
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