Meet Alana Cattapan, Canadian Egg Donor Researcher
We Are Egg Donors (WAED) first formed in 2013 and researcher Alana Cattapan was one of the first people to reach out. Over the years Alana has included us at numerous events -- from conferences to policy strategy sessions -- which has helped bring underrepresented donor voices to the larger conversation around the ethics of third-party reproduction. Today Alana has evolved her work to study egg donors in Canada, a research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Our co-founder, Claire Burns, sat down with Alana to talk about her work.
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Our Stories: Why Donor Advocacy Matters with Rachel Lemmons
This is Our Stories, a new series by We Are Egg Donors (WAED), that digs into the real stories behind the volunteers who make our community possible. Today WAED has thousands of members committed to transparency and better standards for egg donors. Get to know Rachel Lemmons and her passion for egg donor advocacy, and how she led WAED’s partnership with other organizations to pass this landmark bill.
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Our Stories: Meet Liz Scheier, Author of Never Simple
This is Our Stories, a new series by We Are Egg Donors, that digs into the real stories behind the volunteers who make our community possible. Liz Scheier, WAED’s media liaison, and author of the new book Never Simple, described by the New York Times as a “powerful, conversational and — above all — honest memoir [that] shakes hard truths out of the family tree.
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Egg Donor Study: Interview with Dr. Diane Tober
We Are Egg Donors has been a long-time partner with Dr. Diane Tober, a medical anthropologist at UCSF who is researching egg donation in the United States and Spain, and another project on egg freezing. We recently sat down with her to catch up on the latest on her work. You can check out WAED’s previous interviews here and here.
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Racial Justice and Egg Donation
We Are Egg Donors stands with those who have been harmed, repressed, marginalized, or murdered because of their skin color. We stand with those who seek justice through protests across the world. We stand together with a commitment to anti-racist, and we will not be silent on this issue.
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Can Egg Donation Cause Ectopic Pregnancies in Egg Donors?
Rae has donated multiple times and is currently trying to conceive. After experiencing a recent loss, she learned some important considerations about pregnancy risk factors that egg donors should have on their radar.
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Considering Egg Donation? Here are Six Common Red Flags to Watch Out For
We Are Egg Donors (WAED) donors have experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly. We’ve put together a list of industry practices which may put your health, safety, or finances at risk. If any of these look familiar, consider choosing another clinic or agency, including your own stipulations in the contract, or turning down the cycle. Your health comes first.
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Interview: Inside Dr. Diane Tober’s Research on Egg Donors
We Are Egg Donors has been a long-time partner with Dr. Diane Tober, a medical anthropologist at UCSF who is researching egg donation in the United States and Spain. Our co-founder, Raquel Cool, recently sat down with her to interview her about her work.
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An Open Letter from Egg Donors to Recipient Parents
We are always heartened to receive messages from concerned intended parents, or recipients of donor eggs, who want to make sure that their egg donor is treated with the utmost respect and highest standard of care. We have learned a lot after forming a community of thousands of egg donors worldwide. We’ve asked our private community to share their insight.
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Interview: I Donated My Eggs as a Trans Man
We rarely hear about egg donation from a trans individuals’ perspective, so WAED invited member Jayson to share his experience.
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Why Our Co-founder Quit
We’re republishing the following article, which includes a resignation letter by our co-founder, Sierra.
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Q&A with Dr. Daisy Deomampo: She is Interviewing American Egg Donors
We are thrilled and honored to interview Dr. Daisy Deomampo, who is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University. She is also a medical anthropologist who is conducting a study on US-based egg donors and women considering egg donation.
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Interview with Mexican Egg Donor & Artist, Paola Livas
Through the process, doing this in ‘secret’ mode was becoming too much. “Are you sure, you really sure you want to do this?” I asked myself over and over again. I had a meltdown or something. I told the clinic I was unsure, I talked to them about the possibility of quitting: They told me that quitting is no longer possible. The doctors told me that at that point, I couldn’t quit, because "they already had a recipient synced up with me". They told me that I couldn’t quit.
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Are Egg Donors Protected As Patients Under HIPAA? Maybe Not
When her egg bank wouldn’t provide her medical records, Rae consulted with an attorney who discovered something very interesting: egg donors might not be protected as patients under HIPAA, which has a tricky grey area to consider.
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INTERVIEW: “My Egg Donor Agency’s Owner Got Prison Time for Fraud”
In September 2015, Allison Layton was sentenced to 18 months in a federal prison for defrauding her clients, surrogates, and egg donors. This is an interview with a 10-time egg donor who worked with her.
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A First-time Egg Donor's Story In 28 Pictures
Christine had never met another egg donor before, so she and her partner, professional photographer Mathew Bell, decided to document her experience through photographs. We invited Christine* (name changed) to share her story.
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How Egg Donation Saved My (Future) Pregnancy
A big thank you to We Are Egg Donors for educating me on the egg donation process and introducing me to some of the most incredible women. Without WAED, I likely would have given up on egg donation long ago and would not have found out about my condition until it was too late. After assessing the risks, I know egg donation is right choice for me, and WAED has played a huge role in helping me come to that conclusion.
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We Need to Talk About Egg Donor Ads
“Females… Get paid for selling your healthy eggs!”
It got me thinking about all the egg donor ads I’ve seen over the years. You’ve probably seen them, too: They are flyers splashed about American college campuses; they’re peppered throughout the “Etc” jobs section of Craiglist; they’re all over the #EggDonation Instagram hashtag. These recruitment advertisements tend to promise the same thing: thousands and thousands of dollars.
But are egg donor ads accurate? This article investigates. We invited Hillary Alberta-Sherer, a PhD candidate at Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy, to take a close look at some egg donor ads from a feminist perspective.
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