{"id":2620,"date":"2019-09-27T22:33:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T22:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2024-09-14T11:18:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T11:18:56","slug":"the-egg-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/en\/press\/the-egg-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Egg Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w100p showonpage\" src=\"\/p\/press-gro-steffen-1.jpg\" srcset=\"\/p\/press-gro-steffen-1-2x.jpg 2x\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aftenposten, 27 September 2019, Norway.\u00a0Miriam Lund Knapstad |\u00a0Helle Aarnes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original version on&nbsp;Aftenposten website\u00a0(required subscription): <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/article\/ap-xPXJoQ.html\">www.aftenposten.no\/article\/ap-xPXJoQ.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Translation to English<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Marie Grondahl Bech is 52 years old and&nbsp;a singelmom to twins \u2013 from eggdonation. Every year between 500 and&nbsp;a 1000 norwegian woman travel abroad to get pregnant with another womans eggs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><strong>\u201cI would love to have more than&nbsp;one child, but&nbsp;I no longer got pregnant with my own eggs.\u201d<\/strong> <br \/>\nMarie Grondahl Bech, Pediatrician \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I thought: What will I regret in&nbsp;ten years? That&nbsp;I tried, or&nbsp;that I didn&#8217;t try?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One morning, pediatrician Marie Gr\u00f8ndahl Bech woke up with an uncomfortable feeling in&nbsp;her body: &#8220;Will nobody experience me as&nbsp;a mother?&#8221; She was 39 years old and&nbsp;working at&nbsp;St. Olav&#8217;s hospital in&nbsp;Trondheim, but&nbsp;had not yet&nbsp;found a man.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When&nbsp;they were in&nbsp;their twenties, she and&nbsp;her girlfriends at&nbsp;medical school had joked that&nbsp;they would become pregnant with a donor if&nbsp;they had not become pregnant by the age of 35.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now&nbsp;the clock was ticking uncomfortably fast.<\/p>\n<p>She contacted \u201cStorkklinik\u201d in&nbsp;Copenhagen and&nbsp;became pregnant with her first child &#8211; a boy &#8211; on&nbsp;the first try, with her own egg and&nbsp;semen from a donor.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when&nbsp;she was 47, she got the twins Agnes and&nbsp;Ellen after&nbsp;double insemination \u2014\u00a0embryos of both donor eggs and&nbsp;donor sperm &#8211; at&nbsp;a clinic in&nbsp;Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>I really wanted to have more than&nbsp;one baby, but&nbsp;no longer became pregnant with my own eggs, says Bech, who&nbsp;is now&nbsp;52 years old and&nbsp;a single mom to three.<\/p>\n<p>I realized that&nbsp;if&nbsp;I really wanted more children, it had to happen with egg donation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>An increase in&nbsp;older mothers<\/h2>\n<p>In&nbsp;2014 Marie Gr\u00f8ndahl Bech was one of 125 women in&nbsp;Norway who&nbsp;got children after&nbsp;the age of 45. Last year it was 154. In&nbsp;ten years the number has more than&nbsp;doubled. Only 10% state that&nbsp;they have been had assisted pregnancies, but&nbsp;there is no reason to believe that&nbsp;it has suddenly become easier to have children after&nbsp;45 says Sigrun Kjotrod, section headdoctor at&nbsp;St. Olav&#8217;s hospital and&nbsp;head of the Norwegian Association for&nbsp;Assisted Conception.<\/p>\n<p>She believes the need for&nbsp;egg donation is greater than&nbsp;we think.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 70 per cent of the couples treated by public health services, get pregnant and&nbsp;give birth, within three trials. Still, 1,200 couples are still childless after&nbsp;treatment, said Kjotrod, who&nbsp;estimates that&nbsp;at&nbsp;least 500, maybe up to a 1000 Norwegian women get eggdonationon every year. Many of them go to Spain. Russia and&nbsp;Finland.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The chance of succeeding with inseminating your own single fertilized egg is 25 percent. When&nbsp;it does not succeed, it is because&nbsp;the eggs are not good enough. Then many choose egg donation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w100p showonpage\" src=\"\/p\/press-gro-steffen-2.jpg\" srcset=\"\/p\/press-gro-steffen-2-2x.jpg 2x\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Stopped change of law<\/h2>\n<p>Egg donation is legal in&nbsp;most European countries. In&nbsp;Norway, Germany, Switzerland and&nbsp;Italy it is forbidden. Last year this seemed to change, when&nbsp;the majority at&nbsp;the Parliament agreed to make egg donation legal by amending the Biotechnology Act. Assisted fertilization for&nbsp;singles should also become legal. <br \/>\nDuring government negotiations, the Christian People&#8217;s Party stopped the liberalization. This means that&nbsp;between 500 and&nbsp;1000 Norwegian women \u00a0still travel abroad each year to do egg donation they could have received in&nbsp;their home country.<\/p>\n<p>Section doctor Sigrun Kjotrod says she was dissappointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 This is not a topic for&nbsp;political negotions . It&#8217;s too hard for&nbsp;those who&nbsp;need help and&nbsp;are banned from it due to theese regulations. They have to accept staying childless, or&nbsp;traveling abroad to get treatment that&nbsp;is not as&nbsp;good, she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Today you can have help from public helth care if&nbsp;you have poor spermquality or&nbsp;problem with your tubes. But&nbsp;if you lack eggs, you have to go out into the dark and&nbsp;pay a lot of money. <br \/>\nFar from all can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Many couples are already struggling with IVF costs of 22 000,- Nok. Egg donation costs ten times as&nbsp;much \u2013 that&nbsp;excludes many. It&#8217;s sad.<\/p>\n<h2>Egg Donation<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Some women<\/strong>\u00a0can not become pregnant with their own eggs. It may be because&nbsp;they naturally have few or&nbsp;no eggs or&nbsp;that their ovaries are not functioning properly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Or&nbsp;premature\u00a0menopause<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0perhaps already in&nbsp;the late 20s or&nbsp;early 30s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Different medical treatments<\/strong>\u00a0can damage the eggs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>In&nbsp;many cases<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0the woman can still get pregnant and&nbsp;give birth if&nbsp;she gets IVF and&nbsp;eggs from a donor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donation may also be relevant in&nbsp;these cases:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"tick\">\n<li class=\"tick\">for&nbsp;women who&nbsp;produce eggs with poor quality that&nbsp;cannot be fertilized\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"tick\">for&nbsp;women who&nbsp;have had repeated spontaneous abortions\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"tick\">for&nbsp;women who&nbsp;have undergone several IVF attempts without success\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"tick\">if&nbsp;the woman has or&nbsp;is predisposed for&nbsp;a serious inherited disease that&nbsp;she does not wish to transmit to her children. <br \/>\n\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption\"><strong>\u201cAs a government and&nbsp;as&nbsp;a society, we should be careful about depriving individuals of the opportunity to grow up with their heraditory background and&nbsp;biological family.\u201d<\/strong> <br \/>\nGeir J\u00f8rgen Bekkevold (Krf) <br \/>\nLeader of the Healthcare Committee at&nbsp;the Storting<\/p>\n<h2>Angry with Erna<\/h2>\n<p>The political parties have conflicting views on&nbsp;egg donation, also within each parties . Those against it fear, among other things, that&nbsp;egg donation will bring Norway one step closer to surrogacy. KrF \u2013 who&nbsp;halted the legislative change this time \u2014\u00a0also focus on&nbsp;the concern for&nbsp;the children. <br \/>\n\u00a0 <br \/>\n\u2014 As&nbsp;a government and&nbsp;as&nbsp;a society, we should be careful tof depriving individuals of the opportunity to grow up with their hereditory background and&nbsp;biological family.\u201d- writes Geir Jorgen Bekkevold (KrF)in an email, who&nbsp;heads the health committee at&nbsp;Stortinget.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 He understands that&nbsp;involuntary childlessness can be challenging and&nbsp;hard, but&nbsp;thinks there are good reasons to be restrictive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 When&nbsp;children are made by order, it does something to our human view. We fear that&nbsp;allowing egg donation will lead to an increasing degree of sorting and&nbsp;that children will be selected on&nbsp;characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Still: Two weeks before&nbsp;the government stopped egg donation in&nbsp;Norway, Prime Minister Erna Solberg used her New Year&#8217;s speech to encourage Norwegians to make more babies.\u00a0That made the gynecologist\u00a0 Jon Hausken annoid.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 If&nbsp;the prime minister wants more children in&nbsp;Norway, she could have helped the women who&nbsp;can&#8217;t have them, he thinks<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Then she must take political responsibility and&nbsp;do something radical. <br \/>\nHausken meet couples who&nbsp;want egg donation every week. He has been working with fertility treatment since&nbsp;1993 and&nbsp;running his own clinic from 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 From my clinic we know of at&nbsp;least a 100 couples traveling from Norway abroad to get egg donation every year. Based on&nbsp;that, I believe between 400 and&nbsp;600 women are traveling abroad every year. Norwegian first time moms are getting older and&nbsp;older. At&nbsp;the same time, Norwegians have never had fewer children. The decline has been steady for&nbsp;the past ten years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 &#8220;The longer women \u00a0wait before&nbsp;getting a baby, the more eggs are getting to old. Then they have to\u00a0 depend on&nbsp;egg donation,&#8221; says Hausken who\u00a0 believes KrF is trying to curb \u201can unstoppable development\u00bbin a country like Norway with focus on&nbsp;higher education and&nbsp;equal rights.<\/p>\n<h2>Magic Eggs\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Marie Grondahl Bech has told her girls that&nbsp;she could not get children in&nbsp;Norway. That&nbsp;she had to travel all the way to Spain to get pregnant with &#8220;magic eggs&#8221;. <br \/>\nShe has never hidden her choice from her family or&nbsp;friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I&#8217;ve never had a problem being open about what I&#8217;ve done. Its been natural for&nbsp;me to be open with the kids about how they came into this world. <br \/>\nEllen and&nbsp;Agnes eggdonor was an 18 year old woman. The sperm donor was 24. Bech was 47 when&nbsp;she gave birth to her twins.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 My son is very similar to me but&nbsp;you can see that&nbsp;the girls are not. They dont have my genes, after&nbsp;all. But&nbsp;I have the same strong bond with all of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 She also believes that&nbsp;epigenetics, the way the environment in&nbsp;her stomach influences genes and&nbsp;nature, also play a role in&nbsp;what kind of baby you get: The girls grew in&nbsp;her stomach. was born by her and&nbsp;was breastfeed by her.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I really feel like they&#8217;re mine.\u00a0Being a toddler mom at&nbsp;the age of 52 and&nbsp;much older than&nbsp;the other parents picking up in&nbsp;kindergarten does not bother her.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I am more on&nbsp;level with collegues in&nbsp;their 30ies than&nbsp;with my girlfriends. I see Peppa Pig in&nbsp;the evenings and&nbsp;go to Cardemomme town for&nbsp;the holidays, while&nbsp;my girlfriends are traveling on&nbsp;bike vacations and&nbsp;winetrips. <br \/>\nBech laugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 When&nbsp;I was 27 I hadn&#8217;t foreseen this. Then I &#8211; like everyone else &#8211; thought it was going to be a life with a husband and&nbsp;children. But&nbsp;when life does not happen that&nbsp;way, I don&#8217;t think you should give up your wish for&nbsp;a child if&nbsp;you are in&nbsp;your 40s, healthy and&nbsp;energetic. <br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w100p showonpage\" src=\"\/p\/press-gro-steffen.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>12 IVF attempts<\/h2>\n<p>\u2014 It was so&nbsp;incredible. We didn&#8217;t say much, but&nbsp;I cried. That&nbsp;moment between my husband and&nbsp;me&#8230; the joy was almost indescribable. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gro Vehus Str\u00f8mmen and&nbsp;husband Steffen Str\u00f8mmen tried to get pregnant for&nbsp;six years. Twelve failed IVF-attempts, in&nbsp;Norway and&nbsp;Denmark, without any doctors finding the error. Every year that&nbsp;passed, the eggs got worse and&nbsp;worse. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Kristiansand couple longed so&nbsp;much for&nbsp;a child, and&nbsp;tried until&nbsp;they could not handle it anymore. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, they made the decision: They went to Russia for&nbsp;egg donation. There they were able to choose among donor women in&nbsp;a catalogue. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They chose a donor based on&nbsp;a youth picture, a health check and&nbsp;a text about why&nbsp;she wanted to donate eggs. The unknown woman had also answered 150 questions about everything from educational background to her favorite color. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They succeeded on&nbsp;the first try. Gro Vehus Str\u00f8mmen was almost 42 years old when&nbsp;long-awaited Malin finally was born last year, nine months after&nbsp;eggs from a Russian woman were inserted at&nbsp;a clinic in&nbsp;St. Petersburg. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 We did want to have children the natural way, and&nbsp;we hoped and&nbsp;hoped. But&nbsp;for every failed attempt, something inside me was destroyed. It had something to do with my belief in&nbsp;myself. I felt like I was a failure. But&nbsp;today I am incredibly happy with what we have achieved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>She doesn&#8217;t look like me<\/h2>\n<p>Today her daughter Malin is a year and&nbsp;a half. She is active, gentle and&nbsp;happy &#8211; but&nbsp;no one has said that&nbsp;she resembles her mother.\u00a0 &#8211; She doesn&#8217;t look like me. She has no genes from me. Then it is good that&nbsp;she looks very much like her dad, the mother smiles. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She comes from a religious family. Only the closest family have so&nbsp;far known that&nbsp;the little girl is conceived with egg donation. The couple has nevertheless chosen to share their story in&nbsp;\u201cA-magasinet\u201d in&nbsp;order to help others. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I almost felt that&nbsp;I was doing something illegal, says Gro Vehus Str\u00f8mmen. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;his daughter&#8217;s baptism, Steffen got up. He didn&#8217;t want to say that&nbsp;much, just the words: &#8220;Thank you, Gro, for&nbsp;never giving up.&#8221;\u00a0 The couple wish they had choosen egg donation much earlier. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Egg donation was not our first choice, nor&nbsp;is it legal in&nbsp;Norway. So&nbsp;it did not seem like an option for&nbsp;us, for&nbsp;a very long time. Most people want a child with their own genes. It was a maturing process, both emotionally, ethically and&nbsp;financially. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They have no doubt that&nbsp;egg donation should be allowed in&nbsp;Norway as&nbsp;well. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Today we are forced to do it abroad, in&nbsp;a foreign language, and&nbsp;that it is not allowed in&nbsp;Norway, is an additional burden.<\/p>\n<h2>Career and&nbsp;high-income patients \u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>A total of 403 Norwegian babies were born after&nbsp;treatment at&nbsp;the Russian clinic chosen by Malin&#8217;s parents. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0We are blessed with amazing patients, says Russian fertility specialist Olga Zaytseff, who&nbsp;runs the O.L.G.A. clinic in&nbsp;St. Petersburg. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 They are educated, smart and&nbsp;open. Many have worked extensively and&nbsp;made careers, and&nbsp;have not had the time to create a family or&nbsp;meet \u201cMr. Right.&#8221; But&nbsp;we have everything from farmers to teachers, doctors and&nbsp;lawyers as&nbsp;patients.\u00a0 Three out of four women who&nbsp;receive eggs, have a partner. To date, nine out of ten Norwegian patients have received egg donation or&nbsp;embryo adoption, according to the clinic. But&nbsp;after introducing &#8220;baby or&nbsp;money back&#8221;\u00a0guarantee for&nbsp;IVF treatment with their own eggs, every third Norwegian patient comes for&nbsp;IVF treatment.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the IVI clinic in&nbsp;Barcelona,\u00a0where Ellen and&nbsp;Agnes were made,\u00a0states that&nbsp;they have treated 150 Norwegian patients over the past five years. 70 percent of them have received donor eggs. They don&#8217;t release successrates.<\/p>\n<h2>45 is the Limit \u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Fertility doctor Jon Hausken believes there are large dark numbers around egg donation, especially for&nbsp;single women. Many do not even&nbsp;tell relatives and&nbsp;friends how the child was recieved.<\/p>\n<p>He helps &#8220;everyone who&nbsp;wants a baby&#8221;: If&nbsp;a healthy 48-year-old prepares egg donation in&nbsp;Spain, he will not deny her an ultrasound.<\/p>\n<p>But&nbsp;he is skeptical that&nbsp;public healthcare should offer free treatment for&nbsp;older, childless women if&nbsp;the Biotechnology Act is changed. He proposes a limit at&nbsp;42 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Women are on&nbsp;average 41 years old when&nbsp;they can no longer have their own children the natural way. Half can have a baby after&nbsp;that, but&nbsp;only 2-5 percent of women aged 45 years. Then the train is gone. I don&#8217;t think society should spend money on&nbsp;it. I could also imagine being a footballplayer for&nbsp;Barcelona, \u200b\u200bbut that&nbsp;train&#8217;s gone, sorry.<\/p>\n<h2>Good With Logistics<\/h2>\n<p>In&nbsp;the red semi-detached house at&nbsp;By\u00e5sen in&nbsp;Trondheim, Marie Grondahl Bech has a full overview of her calendar for&nbsp;the next three months. As&nbsp;a medical doctor working shifts with no familynetwork close by, she has become &#8220;excellent at&nbsp;logistics and&nbsp;planning&#8221; in&nbsp;order to run a family with three children.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I always sit down and&nbsp;plan well in&nbsp;advance, get an overview of congresses and&nbsp;shifts, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;creating a food plan for&nbsp;the entire week. Then I shop everything at&nbsp;the beginning of the week so&nbsp;we don&#8217;t have to spend more time focusing on&nbsp;this.<\/p>\n<p>Her son Holger has just come home from school. She has to pick up the girls in&nbsp;kindergarten before&nbsp;it closes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I&#8217;ve always had an extra gear, but&nbsp;have to admit that&nbsp;I was tired a lot and&nbsp;exhausted when&nbsp;the girls were between two and&nbsp;four years. In&nbsp;fact, time on&nbsp;my own I can forget. Halfmarathon, \u00a0travelling and&nbsp;such is stuff I did before, she laughs<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 But&nbsp;I am good at&nbsp;involving the children in&nbsp;helping around the house. The oldest gets extra spending money for&nbsp;helping with housework, the girls sets the table.<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;addition she gets good help from neighbors and&nbsp;a bonus grandma nearby. &#8211; I&#8217;ve been lucky with so&nbsp;many nice people around me. it makes it go around, says the mother of three, who&nbsp;has never felt judged by her surroundings for&nbsp;choosing unconventional.<\/p>\n<h2>The greatest gift<\/h2>\n<p>When&nbsp;the twins were born, she told her oldest son Holger that&nbsp;he could choose a big-brother gift, something he wanted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have got what I wanted. Now&nbsp;it&#8217;s your turn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The son replied, &#8220;But mom, \u00a0I also got what I wanted.&#8221; &#8211; He&#8217;s an amazing big brother. And&nbsp;I&#8217;m very happu we got Ellen and&nbsp;Agnes, then it&#8217;s not just the two of us, says Marie Grondahl Beck. The day I am no longer here, Holger still has a family<\/p>\n<h2>Arguments for&nbsp;and against eggdonation\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h3>For:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is equal treatment for&nbsp;infertile women and&nbsp;men who&nbsp;need help getting a baby by donation.<\/li>\n<li>The biology argument is not as&nbsp;strong in&nbsp;the Norwegian population as&nbsp;before. Arguments such as&nbsp;freedom and&nbsp;self-desition have greater impact among most people.<\/li>\n<li>Reproduction using technology is a development that&nbsp;cannot be stopped.<\/li>\n<li>It will prevent women from risking complications after&nbsp;treatment at&nbsp;poorly regulated clinics abroad. Eggs taken out by women during IVF treatments will be used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Against:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Egg donation is against nature and&nbsp;culture. At&nbsp;all times we have known that&nbsp;the woman who&nbsp;gives birth to a baby is also the child&#8217;s genetic mother.<\/li>\n<li>This contributes to further technologicalisation and&nbsp;making reproduction a technical matter. It moves the boundaries towards surrogacy.<\/li>\n<li>If&nbsp;women make money being donors, as&nbsp;in England and&nbsp;the United States people are concerned that&nbsp;the motivation for&nbsp;donating eggs will be wrong. Donating eggs is medical more challenging and&nbsp;also a more resource-consuming process than&nbsp;sperm donation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThe majority of\u00a0\u00a0the Biotechnology council has recommended that&nbsp;the Norwegian authorities change the law and&nbsp;make egg donation legal. Women undergoing IVF treatment can\u00a0\u00a0donate surplus eggs for&nbsp;this purpose. The donated eggs must be fertilized with the partner&#8217;s semen, so&nbsp;that&nbsp;there is a genetic connection between the child and&nbsp;one of the parents. The Directorate of Health recommends that&nbsp;egg donation be legalized as&nbsp;sperm donation is today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aftenposten, 27 September 2019, Norway. Miriam Lund Knapstad, Helle Aarnes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[19,7],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Egg Solution - O.L.G.A. Fertility<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about egg donation to understand who might need it and what are possible concerns and ethical problems. 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