What is an Egg Donor?
An egg donor is a special, healthy young woman who wants to provide an extraordinary gift and service to a recipient who strongly desires to have a child but who cannot conceive or give birth to a child. There are many reasons why a woman may need donor eggs, including ovarian problems, genetic risk factors or age. Egg donation involves a physician supervised process in which the donor’s eggs are retrieved, fertilized outside of her body, and then transferred to an intended mother with the hope that the intended mother or a surrogate will become pregnant.
