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Illegal sperm donor website owners get suspended sentence
By Kimberley Smith on 13/10/2010 12:47:26
Fines and community service for two businessmen who offered anonymous sperm donors to women online
Two men who ran an anonymous sperm donor website have been convicted under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. Ricky Gage and Nigel Woodforth have both been given a suspended sentence along with a £15,000 fine community service
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Women warned to use official sperm donation channels after Dutch donor lies about health
By Jayne Braithwaite on 16/08/2011 14:18:33
Autistic man fathers 22 donor children after fibs about his condition
was on the autism spectrum before advertising his services on two sperm donation websites. Of the 22 children he is known to have fathered, some have gone on to show signs of the condition themselves.Women turn to online donors when waiting lists and the cost
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Sperm donor supply questioned
By Laura Lee Davies on 09/06/2006 01:30:03
The HFEA deny suggestions that changes to the law have reduced the number of willing sperm donors.
The HFEA (The Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority) have denied that changes to the law have reduced the number of men coming forward to donate sperm.Despite claims from some doctors that the change in law, last year, to make donors waive
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Virtual Sperm Bank – for beauties only
By Kimberley Smith on 22/06/2010 14:00:11
Dating website BeautifulPeople.com launches a virtual sperm bank to give non-members the chance to have beautiful babies
the site’s fertility forum (even if they don’t themselves pass the attractiveness test!) and men can register to donate their beautiful sperm.Would you consider choosing a donor to increase your chances of having attractive children or is this site missing
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IVF fee deal to women who donate eggs
By Laura Lee Davies on 28/07/2006 10:11:39
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority have given a UK clinic the license to offer reduced fee incentives to IVF couples who donate spare eggs for research.
. The HFEA is carrying out a three-month consultation on the move, during the autumn.For more about various forms of assisted conception, and donation of eggs and sperm, visit the HFEA website.
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What is the success rate of IVF?
By Laura Lee Davies on 28/12/2006 02:11:33
Although medical treatment nowadays might achieve what would have seemed like a miracle a generation ago, IVF isn't a guarantee of successful conception. So what are the chances?
, eggs are taken from the ovaries of the woman (or an egg donor) by surgery and then allowed to fertilise in a laboratory with sperm (from the woman's partner or a donor), and then placed directly into the uterus by surgery. The initial egg collection
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