Disclosure Issues From the Perspective of the Embryo Donor
This is the second of a five-part series by Dr. Craig R. Sweet examining the complex decision-making surrounding the disclosure of the genetic origins of embryo donor offspring to family, friends and...
View ArticlePart 2: Disclosure from the Perspective of the Embryo Recipient
This is Part 2 of the Disclosure From the Perspective of the Embryo Recipient series. If you missed Part 1 and want to catch up, please scroll below or click here. In the week prior, we also covered...
View ArticleDisclosure Issues in Embryo Donation: Summary Comments
Brief Introduction Embryo donors and recipients are faced with a number of life-changing decisions as they contemplate disclosure. This is the final segment of a five-part series summarizing the...
View ArticleHope & Will Have a Baby – Book review by Craig R. Sweet, M.D.
This book is one of a collection of third party conception children’s books written by the same author and illustrator and published by Graphite Press, copyright of 2006. It is one of the only books I...
View ArticleGeorgia Law: The First Salvo Towards Embryo Personhood
A Guest Post by: Harold Eskin, Esq. New laws are beginning to appear on the books of many states that support “embryo adoption.” “Embryo Adoption” is placed in quotation marks because that phrase alone...
View ArticleHow Does Embryo Donation International Rank Embryo Recipients?
Unfortunately, there are far more potential embryo recipients than donated embryos. While in this country alone, hundred of thousands of embryos are stored in liquid nitrogen, (Hoffman DI, et. al,...
View ArticleDo These Donated Embryos Make the Grade?
Embryo Grading Made Easy For Embryo Donors and Embryo Recipients Part 1 of a 3 part mini-series by Corey Burke, B.S., C.L.S. & Laboratory Supervisor and Reproductive Endocrinologist Craig R. Sweet,...
View ArticleParent via Egg Donation – Parent via Embryo Donation
Marna Gatlin of PVED Exploring what we know – Marna Gatlin, Founder Parents via Egg Donation and guest blogger I was asked recently what I thought about embryo donation vs. egg donation. Is a parent...
View ArticleReasons to Donate
By: Vicki D., an embryo donor “In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line,...
View ArticleWhy Creating “McEmbryos” is Just Plain Wrong
Introduction Recently, Alan Zarembo of the L.A. Times released a story alleging that California Conceptions was combining donated eggs with donated sperm and called them “donated embryos.” If there...
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