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Latest Surrogacy News
Triple the number of women find egg
donors
By Health Reporter
LAURA ANDERSON
05 Jan 2004
The Advertiser
THE number of South Australian women receiving eggs from
donors has more than tripled in three years, figures
from SA's Reproductive Medicine Unit show.
The rise is attributed to increasing numbers of women
paying to find non-anonymous donors through newspaper
ads.
"In 2003 we completed
about 25 egg donor cycles," Dr Christine Kirby, head of
Assisted Reproduction at the University of Adelaide's
Repromed unit, said yesterday.
"Prior to 2001, before
we encouraged women to advertise, we were doing five to
10 cycles a year and would have to tell a lot of the
women who came to us for eggs to forget about having
children."
Dr Kirby said the
practice of advertising in newspapers for donors had
largely reduced the waiting list for women in the past
few years.
"If they had not been
advertising that waiting list would have been
uncontrollable and sitting at 40 to 50," she said.
Newspaper
advertisements – usually placed about once a month – can
be an expensive option for women seeking donors but
Repromed says the practice has a high success rate.
"At the moment we have
probably just had 10 or 12 women go through, all of whom
have advertised and found donors," Dr Kirby said. "You
either find a sister, a friend, a cousin or you
advertise.
"If they don't
advertise they basically sit on a waiting list."
Women on the waiting
list are seeking anonymous donors, which take longer to
find.
Currently there are
about eight women on the list and about 12 advertising
for a donor. "The people on the anonymous waiting list
are the ones waiting for four to five years," Dr Kirby
said.
"We won't accept donors
if they are not prepared to identify themselves in the
future," she said. "It is our strong opinion, for the
wellbeing of any child, that they need to have that
information."
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