Understanding Egg Donation Legislation



Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010

by Jenny Currie
baby2mom Egg Donation and Surrogacy Programme

The rules and regulations pertaining to most aspects of life differ per country or state. Egg donation legislation is no different. For example egg donation is legal in all but one state in the United States.

Egg donation legislation in South Africa is quite legitimate and enables people some choices and empowerment. Egg donation is governed under the National Health Act of 2003. As with other live tissues, donors may not be seen to profit from an egg donation. Accordingly, it has been decided to set a fixed donation that egg donors will receive for such a deed. This is viewed as an amount to compensate for expenses incurred in actually getting to the egg donation clinic and for the inconvenience of injecting themselves.

The bodies involved in the egg donor programs unofficially ensure compliance by egg donor clinics and South African egg donation agencies. This is in the best interests off all people. To ensure that egg donors fully understand their role and the egg donor process, they are counselled on a psychological level also to obtain their comittment to the egg donor program.

Part of the egg donor legislation is that egg donors remain anonymous and cannot be contacted by egg donation recipients. Full profiles can be made available to egg donation recipients including pictures, but no names. The egg donor profiles available on egg donor databases includes medical background, academic information, personality aspects, of course egg donor physical traits.

baby2mom Egg Donation Agency - www.baby2mom.co.za offers professional egg donation services, full compliance with egg donation legislation, access to an egg donor database of hundreds of egg donors and specialised and unique services to egg donation recipients and egg donors.

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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)
» left by Ken Sundheim
 1 year 350 days ago.
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I think the most important thing is to ensure that the donor is healthy.
» left by baby2mom from http://www.baby2mom.co.za 1 year 279 days ago.
The health of the egg donor is vitally important, but very often an egg donation recipient has a specific trait in mind for their egg donor.
 
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