Egg donation

When I think of indentured servitude, I view it in a negative context. To be indentured means “to be forced to work by some contract.” (Indentured - Dictionary Definition) While surrogacy involves signing a contract, I think it is situationally dependent when deciding if it is considered a form of indentured servitude. It is a complex topic, but I personally believe deeming the act a form of indentured servitude largely depends on the intentions behind using surrogacy in the first place, and how

completed the egg donation process. Plus, egg donation has an extremely low success rate. According to Pamela Tsigdinos, author and researcher, there is a seventy-seven percent failure rate of frozen eggs resulting in a live birth in women aged thirty, and a ninety-one percent failure rate in women aged forty (Tsigdinos, 2014). Helping a family can seem exciting and fulfilling to anyone who knows little about egg donations until people are informed about the risks that come along with egg donation, which

Gestational surrogacy and egg donation are largely unregulated in the United States because of the way the issues were approached. To explain, because surrogacy and egg donations were seen as a means for providing children to those who cannot have any of their own, the procedure was seen as medicine. As it is seen as medicine, the cases were treated as individual agreements between the patient and doctor. Because this was not an experimentation, there was no need for the procedure to go through the

the requirement that an egg donor had to be between the age of 18 and 35 years of age...” (Janwalkar, 2014) As a contrast to Pandey’s story, Katie O’Reilly writes about her experience as an egg donor who when, “…broke and faced with a big hospital bill, I got $8,000 for donating my eggs. If I’d known then what I know now, I wouldn’t have done it.” (O'Reilly, 2015) O’Reilly’s assertion comes in light of the health problems she has experienced in the years following her egg extraction procedure.

The donation of mitochondrial is extremely important because 1 in 200 children in the UK are born with the condition that can lead to disability and death and there is no cure currently (Mitochondrial donation, 2014). In the UK there is a shortage of donated gametes even though gamete donation is in demand (Murray et al,2000) especially within the ethnic minority groups (Purewal et al, 2005). More often gamete donation is more common within the men population

Genetic Engineering: Designer Babies, Egg Donation and Gene Therapy Genes dictate what color hair a person has or what color their eye. Those things are learned in middle school and high school but what genes also carry are traits of genetics diseases, disorders and defects. Biotechnology today has passed the marker for not being able to identify the majority of genetic traits. However screening and identifying are very different from altering. Gene therapy, the process of transplanting normal genes

of adoption (Canadian Surrogacy Options, Inc). Lastly, egg donation, would refer to the condition or process of maintaining a database for potential egg donors (Canadian Surrogacy Options, Inc.) For the purposes of this discussion, each of these engages in the commidification of the reproductive agency and human reproduction by legally and socially justifying a condition in which this capacity may become fungible. (FOOT NOTE) Mother’s egg, father’s sperm – this type of surrogacy is usually employed

commissioning parents are the genetic parents. When performing IVF, the eggs and sperms are taken from the mother and father and fertilized in a petri dish. The resulting embryo is surgically implanted into the uterus of the surrogate mother. This method is extremely expensive and requires the mother to have an intact ovary. A third way surrogacy can be practiced is, if the commissioning mother's eggs are not viable, having an egg donor "harvested" with the father's sperm. This embryo is then implanted

(the “surrogate mother”). (Vaughn, 398) Then there is Gestational surrogacy, which is defined as “the surrogate receives a transferred embryo created through IVF using the sperm and egg of others (the contracting couple of donors). Because the gestational (also called the gestational carrier) does not contribute her own egg, she has no genetic connection to the baby.” (Vaughn, 398) In

When two married adults find themselves in a situation where they would like children, but due to other circumstances, they are unable to naturally conceive a child themselves. It is in this case when a couple may choose surrogacy, defined by Merriam-Webster dictionaries as “the practice by which a woman (called a surrogate mother) becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby in order to give it to someone who cannot have children.” Naturally, when making a decision regarding surrogacy, the two adults