Egg Donation & Surrogacy

CNN video: "Egg Donors on the Rise" - click the "Play" button below to watch:

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Date: Monday, December 10

Time: 10:00 PM

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Tune to CNN for Anderson Cooper's coverage of egg donation, which features Northeast Assisted Fertility Group:

TONIGHT: Dough for eggs!  Tough times can mean ‘eggceptional’ measures. See why women are lining up in clinics ...

Northeast Assisted Fertility Group to be Featured on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” Next Week - Story on Egg Donation

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Now CNN has picked up on the “surge” in egg donation and they invited Sanford and me to participate in the story. They were ...

Amy Benfer’s piece in Salon yesterday questioned the editorial logic behind the Times publication of Kuczynski’s article, but concluded that it was at least honest in choosing not to mitigate the writer’s vanity, selfishness, and sense of entitlement. She had a slightly more generous attitude toward Kuczynski than many of her readers ...

“Ova Time: Women Line Up To Donate Eggs - For Money”

It also acknowledges the ASRM’s limit on compensation and mentions one donor agency that ignores it, since “the offer brings in donors ...

In Beyond Compensation:  Egg Donor Expenses and Financial Liability (2 of 3), we listed a few reasons why we do not support penalty clauses in egg donor contracts.  Here are a few more.

Penalty clauses in egg donor contracts are unduly coercive.

Although unenforceable, they do serve a psychological purpose: coerce the donor into compliance ...

In Beyond Compensation:  Egg Donor Expenses and Financial Liability (1 of 3), we claimed to stand against penalty clauses in egg donor contracts. Here is why.

Penalty clauses in egg donor contracts are unfair.

The penalty, if enforced, could well add up to thousands of dollars, which the egg donor very likely does not have ...

So, we finally get to read the Sunday Magazine article, and they do not credit Sanford Benardo or Northeast Assisted Fertility Group (NAFG) for our input. Oh, well. Nonetheless, I found Kuczynski's story of infertility and surrogacy heartfelt and brazenly honest. It was also pretty accurate.

I first read the story as a text-only ...

We are eager to view Alex Kuczynski's "Her Body, My Baby" when it is posted online and comes out on Sunday.

The New York Times contacted the Northeast Assisted Fertility Group regarding our opinions on surrogacy law and procedure, but we did not participate in Kuczynski's surrogacy.  Preview the article on Jezebel.com ...