Firstpost | February 23, 2024
Updates to India’s surrogacy law will allow married couples to use donor sperm or eggs provided that one member of the couple has a medical condition prompting the need for donor gametes. The law still stipulates that one of the gametes must come from the couple.
The Times of India | May 16, 2023
A couple in Mumbai is challenging a recent rule change that allows only the use of gametes from intending parents for surrogacy (no donor gametes), on the grounds that the rule violates constitutional rights.
Progress Educational Trust | April 3, 2023
Identity release of donors is increasingly recognized as important for donor-conceived children, and direct-to-consumer DNA testing makes donor anonymity more difficult. Regulators and researchers are assessing whether law reforms should remove donor anonymity in gamete donation (which is common in surrogacy arrangements).
Abril Castro Prieto | WorldCrunch | November 3, 2022
Abril Castro Prieto from Mexico illustrates the effects of racism and colonialism on the reproductive technology industry and shares her personal experience with reciprocal IVF (mis-translated from original Spanish into the English version as “surrogacy”). When choosing an anonymous sperm donor, her doctor assumed she would opt for a white donor, i.e. expecting she would want to “improve the race.”
Hannah Devlin | The Guardian | May 20, 2022
Due to the rapid rise of consumer genetic testing, the UK’s HFEA is considering removing the anonymity period for sperm and egg donors. This would allow contact between donors, donor-conceived people, and their genetic parents, but first the change requires careful consideration by all parties.
Aastha Atray Banan | Mid-Day | February 6, 2022
India recently passed new Surrogacy and ART Acts, banning commercial surrogacy and germline cell sales, respectively. In this interview, author Pinki Virani acknowledges that the acts will promote a more regulated, less money-oriented fertility industry by eliminating the sale-purchase aspect of sperm and eggs and putting power in the hands of surrogates. On the other hand, Virani believes that there are still risks with IVF and third-party reproduction due to the complexity of sourcing sex cells, fertilization, implantation, and birth. In particular, she urges patients to undergo thorough screening processes to reduce the risk of genetic siblings unknowingly becoming a couple.
By Robert Klitzman | Slate | October 18, 2019
A new TV drama explores the devastating real-life scenario of fertility doctors impregnating large numbers of patients with their own genetic material. This article looks at the multiple problems linked to anonymous egg and sperm donation that could potentially be mitigated with a donor registry.
BBC | August 23, 2019
This 24-minute film tells the story of a young woman preparing to meet the man who donated the sperm her mothers used to conceive her, and also meeting several of the 19 half-siblings who were “fathered” by the same donor.
