In my opinion, young women I should not be allowed to donate their eggs. There is a lack of peer-reviewed studies as to the long-term effects and health consequences of human egg donation for the women who donate. Since the birth of Louise Brown, the first "test-tube" baby, in 1975, fertility and human reproduction have never been the same. Five years later, the first IVF pregnancy was created with a donor egg. We had long been familiar with donor sperm, but the advent of the donor egg added to the battery of available infertility treatments. Now they were no longer only "treatments" but rather ART, a general phrase that refers to procedures in which both eggs and sperm are manipulated (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2009).
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