News: Donor conception - UK

Updated: Jun 13/10

• I may have been created by a sperm donor, but my Dad gave me an actual life (Re: Susannah Merricks. Daily Mirror. Dec 5/08)
• It happened to me: My father had 300 children (Re: Jo Rose. Daily Mail. Dec 12/08)
• Sarah and Tom spent £25,000 to have an IVF baby because he was infertile. Then he walked out because he couldn't love a child that wasn't his (Daily Mail. Mar 12/09)
• A generation of sperm donor children are discovering the father they know and love is NOT their father at all (Daily Mail. Mar 19/09)
• Directors of online sperm donor business face criminal prosecution (Jun 8/09. BioNews)
• HFEA calls for debate around payment for sperm and egg donation (Jul 27/09. BioNews)
• Finding your biological family. From Oct/09, UK children conceived by egg or sperm donation can find their biological siblings through a voluntary register. Kati Whitaker talks to the donor, the recipients and the children about how sharing genes affects who we think we are (Sept 26/09. The Guardian)
• The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008: Promoting wider access to information about genetic origins? A commentary by Dr Caroline Jones, Lecturer in Law, University of Southampton (Sept 25/09. BioNews 527)
• Lords attack cross-generation embryo and gamete donation (Oct 25/09. BioNews 531)
• Fertility watchdog to review donation rules (Dec 14/09. BioNews 538)
• Despair of the DNA 'sisters': In a terrible mistake that casts new doubt on DNA profiling, it turns out they weren't related at all (Feb 21/10. Daily Mail) UK DonorLink Press Release
• IVF doctors to raffle human egg (March 14/10. The Times)
• Fertility watchdog aims to put donor siblings in touch (Apr 12/10. BioNews)
• Reply to 'Gamete donation in the UK: Time to think again' (Apr 13 /10, BioNews. By Professor Eric Blyth)
• Been there, sperm donated and got the t-shirt (Apr 16/10. BioNews)
• Meeting demand for human tissue: should we even try? (May 10/10. BioNews 557. A commentary by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern, Chair, Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on human bodies in medicine and research)