October 18, 2013
ABC World News reported that a study published online Oct. 17 “in the Journal of the American Medical Association found a significant increase in the number of women donating eggs to help infertile couples conceive.”
USA Today (10/17, Painter, 5.82M) reported, “Fertility clinics reported 18,306 procedures using fresh or frozen donated eggs in 2010, up from 10,801 in 2000, according to the study” which was also presented yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the International Federation of Fertility Societies. What’s more, about “one-quarter of the women who used donor eggs in 2010 ended up with what doctors consider an optimum outcome: a single baby, born after at least 37 weeks of pregnancy, weighing at least 5.5 pounds, the study found,” an increase of 18.5% since 2000.
