SHEFFIELD, UK, October 25, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Sheffield Fertility Centre has developed an “egg sharing” scheme offering free fertility treatment to women who agree to donate half their ova produced during the treatment. Clinic director Liz Lenton claims the donated ova will be used for IVF treatments with women who cannot produce their own ova.
Paul Tully, general secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children in the UK, commented: “This will create pressure on women who would not choose, or could not afford IVF, to go in for it. Many women don’t want to think that someone else is bearing their (genetic) baby, or that their embryonic children are being used as guinea-pigs: this is what ‘egg-sharing’ means. The pressures on childless women will force some to contemplate the unthinkable.”
The vast majority of unborn children created in IVF treatment die during the process.
See the BBC coverage: https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1616000/1616219.stm (with files from SPUC)