Why is egg donation still a taboo among fertility treatments?

AmandaLeeFitzgerald · 2015-12-26 08:33:48 UTC

Heyyyy... After years trying to conceive, my partner and I decided to move to IVF. I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure, so experts told me to move to donor eggs. So we used a semen sample from my man and the eggs of an anonymous donor. Everything was okay, perfect indeed, but we had a preference to keep it a secret, because people in our community and even our family is not so open-minded about it. Then when we announced we were expecting, the big question came: "How?" And then we had to choose between lying or telling the truth. We finally bet for the truth, but imagine everyone thinking the baby wasn't "actually" ours... On the other hand, I've a friend that decided to move to sperm banking by herself, and now she's a single mother by choice and everyone has given her a round of a applause... why? I mean, technically it's the same "artificial" method, why this secrecy toward egg donation?

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