An Irish woman has died from IVF treatment. Not the first, and surely not the last. Attention egg donors - you aren't just giving your child away. You are potentially dying to give your child away.
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About Me
- Veronica Thomas
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- I am a busy stay-at-home mom of three-year-old Cutie, two-year-old Brainy and 9-month-old Sweetie. Supper time is a challenge for me every day (unless there are leftovers). Once my husband gets home from work and I can hand over the children, I usually have about 30 minutes to throw it all together before the rumbles in those little tummies cut short my preparations. Quite regularly I also have to cook while entertaining one or more of the little ones who have decided to attach to me at just that most particular time. So I thought I would share my mealtime adventures and recipes for those who perhaps are in similar situations and might find them helpful.
Blog Archive
Blogs by the Donor-Conceived and by Donors
- Babs' blog against repro tech
- Confessions of a cryokid - Lindsay, a donor-conceived young woman
- Damian Adams, son of a sperm donor
- Donor-Conceived Perspectives - several donor-conceived people blog here
- Elizabeth, a donor conceived woman
- Kelly, daughter of a sperm donor
- Lynne W. Spencer - DI conceived, seems to be proud of it, has written a book on DI kids
- Michael Linden - sperm donor who is now against sperm donation
- Mike - Tasmanian student, gay, DI conceived
- Narelle, daughter of a sperm donor
- Regretful surrogate mom writes journal to son
- Son of a Surrogate
- Umbilically Challenged - daughter of surrogate mother
- Whosedaughter - donor conceived woman - this is a very active and very informative blog that I highly reccommend
Other Related Blogs and Sites
Groups for Those Affected
Repro Tech News
Cool Sites and Blogs on Related Matters
Blog Stops Along The Baby Trade
- 3 Munchkins and a Mom - 1 natural child and 2 DI children with a single mom
- A single Woman's Journey to Motherhood - single DI mom
- As Good As It Gets - Woman who is parenting twins created with sister's donated egg
- Bob the Broom - Woman currently pregnant with donor's egg
- Boulder's Boxcars - Woman considering using a surrogate
- DE Success - parents of 1-year-old donor egg twins
- Demeter's Hope - 40-something career "single mom by choice" used donor sperm
- DI Dad - Social dad of two DI kids - his hobby, ironically, is genealogy
- DI Mom - mother of children from donor sperm
- Dynamo Dad - Australian man who would like to become a social father through DI
- Egg Scramble - pregnant with donor egg
- Enough Already - mother of donor egg babies
- Going It Alone - British single woman, 41, currently pregnant with DI twins
- Hard Boiled - mother of egg donor's baby
- IF and the city - woman currently pregnant with donor egg
- Life in the Soupbowl - mom of donor egg daughter
- Miki Morissette - Single Moms By Choice - don't give much choice to their kids
- My Sperm Donor Journey - 29-year-old single woman using donor sperm
- No Bananas - woman pregnant with donor sperm
- Our IVF and PGD Journey - A couple using donor sperm
- Plan B - Mother of son born of gestational surrogate
- Right vs. Easy - woman raising boy conceived with cousin's eggs
- Rocky Road - trying to get pregant with donor sperm
- Sarah Solitaire - hopeful "single mom by choice"
- Soulbliss - single lesbian DI mom
- Stella and/or Ben - trying to conceive with donor sperm
- Technology Babies - Swiss woman trying to conceive with donor sperm
- The End of My Line? - Social father of DI twins
- The Great Baby Quest - woman trying donor sperm
- The Sweet Life - trying to conceive with frozen embryos and donor sperm
- Three Bags Full - woman has frozen embryo, trying various repro tech
Living and Spreading Injustice
- Donor Miracles - a Yahoo group for parents of donor-conceived children
- DI Dads Speak Out - social fathers online
- Free Classifieds for Surrogacy - after all, why not?
- Surrogate Moms Online - Online chatroom for suppliers and buyers
- Donor Conception Network - British national self-help network for DI parents and those contemplating using DI
The Revolution in Parenthood: The Emerging Global Clash Between Adult Rights and Children"s Needs
http://www.americanvalues.org/parenthood/parenthood.htm
Reccommended Books about Repro Tech
- Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, by Sylvia Hewlett (334 pp, Miramax, April 2002).
- Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Men, Women, and the World, by Liza Mundy (432 pp, Knopf, April 2007).
- My Daddy's Name is Donor, by Elizabeth Marquart (TO BE PUBLISHED)
- The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, by Debora L. Spar (302 pp, Harvard Business School Press, February 2006).
- The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, by Michael J. Sandel (176 pp, Belknap Press, May 2007).
- Who Am I? Experiences of Donor Conception, by Dr. Alexina McWhinnie (72 pp, Idreos Education Trust, October 2006).
Reports and Papers on Repro Tech
- Family History, by J. David Velleman, Philosophical Papers, Vol. 34., No. 3 (November 2005) - PDF document.
- Donor gametes: anonymous or identified? by Ken Daniels, Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2007).
- "The Right To Know: Secrecy and Donor Conception" (Australian Rationalist, Autumn 2000)
- "From a ‘bundle of joy’ to a person with sorrow: Disenfranchised grief for the donor-conceived adult"- by Joanna Rose (2001)
General Articles on the Baby Trade
Articles on Egg Donation
- Carol Ostrom, "Donated eggs, sperm create complex relationships" (Seattle Times, July 5, 2007).
- Dani Shapiro, "There is No Me Without You" (Elle, February 2007)
- Debora Spar, Ph.D., "The Egg Trade - Making Sense of the Market for Human Oocytes" (New England JOurnal of Medicine, March 29, 2007)
- Peggy Orenstein, "Your Gamete, Myself" (New York Times, July 15, 2007).
Articles on Sperm Donation
- "Children of a lesser dad" (Fairfax Digital, December 21, 2002).
- "From 'donor 48QAH' to dad" (USA Today, June 14, 2006)
- "My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor" - by Katrina Clark (Washington Post, December 17, 2006)
- "My Life as a Sperm Donor Dad" - by Mike Livingston (Washington Post, December 17, 2006)
- "Sperm Donor Father Ends His Anonymity" (NYT, Feb 14, 2007)
- "Sperm for Sale" (Forbes, February 9, 2007)
- Article on blogger "DI Dad" -- "Infertile fathers fight stigma as 'DI Dads'" (USA Today, June 14, 2006)
- David Brook, "The National Pastime" (New York Times, June 15, 2007)
- Kay S. Hymowitz, "The Incredible Shrinking Father" (City Journal, Spring 2007).
Articles on Surrogacy
Articles on Single Mothers and Fathers by Choice
Articles on Legal Issues Resulting from Repro Tech
- Danielle Hamm, "Divorced Couple Battle for 'Custody' of their Frozen Embryos" (BioNews, June 5, 2007).
- Danielle Hamm, "Sperm donor seeks custody of his biological son" (BioNews, July 23, 2007).
- Elizabeth Marquardt, "When Three Really is a Crowd" (New York Times, July 16, 2007)
- Nicola Woolcock, "Couple wins child from mother who broke [traditional] surrogacy agreement" (The Times, July 27, 2007).
Articles on IVF Issues
Articles on Health Effects of Repro Tech on Children and Mothers
- "Fertility method (ICSI) linked to low testosterone in boys" (Reuters, July 31, 2007).
- Sandy Starr, "Report on death of Irish IVF patient published" (July 31, 2007).
- Sarah Boseley, "Taking on the baby gods: mild IVF" (The Guardian, July 4, 2007).
- Dr. Kelly Hollowell, "John Edwards' high-risk children" (WorldNetDaily, July 24, 2004).
Articles on Genetic Screening (PGD)
Articles on Frozen Embryos and Embryo Adoption
Articles on Advances in Repro Tech
Commenting on Canada
- Assisted Human Reproduction Act of Canada (2004)
- Assisted Human Reproduction Office of Canada
- IMFC review - Part 2: DI children grow up (February 2007) - PDF
- IMFC review of repro tech situation in Canada - Part 1: risks to women (January 2007) - PDF
- Testimony of Barry Stevens, a founding member of the Alliance of People Produced by Assisted Reproductive Technology (APPART) and maker of the film Offspring, as he testifies against donor anonimity in Canada - "Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights" (Ottawa, October 2, 2006)
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