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EGG DONATION
Egg donation offers the only chance of conception for a woman
who produces too few or no eggs, or eggs that are unsuitable for
genetic reasons. Sperm supplied by her partner (the ‘recipient man’)
are injected directly into the eggs donated by another woman to
inseminate them (a technique known as ICSI).
If this in vitro fertilization produces a number of embryos, one
or two will be transferred to the woman’s womb, where they can
implant and grow to full term.
The CRG has four egg donation formulas: partial donation (known
as ‘egg sharing’), named donation and exchange donation. Those
last two formulas apply to couples who can present a donor
themselves; the first one to couples who don’t/can’t do that. The
latter automatically land in the waiting list donation system as
candidate acceptor, where they – apart from egg sharing – can
appeal on voluntary anonymous donation (which is the fourth
formula).
RECRUITMENT
We have reviewed the general conditions to which donors must
conform previously (see p. 95-96). One of these is that the
maximum age for egg donors is 35. Exceptions to this rule are only
made in certain cases of named donation and with the recipient
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