Should Your Donor Offspring Know Its Biological Parents?
Erica Berman
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Posted 10.01.2012
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Canada Living
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Egg Donors,
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Open ID Donor,
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Fertility,
Anonymous Donor,
Canada Living News
As barriers to adoption increase, egg donation is becoming a more popular option for couples who are unable to use their own eggs. Because it is illegal to pay for eggs in Canada, it is often difficult for a woman to find a donor, so they head to the U.S. Many of the egg banks do not yet offer open ID donor programs and this causes a bit of an ethical dilemma. Should these individuals, desperate for a child, and without other options, not proceed with what is often the most accessible and affordable means of getting a donated egg because their hypothetical child may want to know the identity of his or her biological mother?
