Canada turns a blind eye to egg ‘donor’ grey market

March 25, 2010

The Canadian ban against women selling their eggs as a source of eggs for fertility treatments is reported to be systemically flawed in practice, according to an expose article published in the April 2010 edition of the Canadian magazine The Walrus. Journalist Alison Motluk interviewed egg ‘donors’ and recipients, fertility experts and regulators, revealing that the Canadian ban is as farcical as its loose interpretation of the word ‘donor’. The article attributed the discrepancy between the law and practice to a lack of supporting regulation required to flesh out how the ban operates whilst permitting the reimbursement of expenses incurred during lawful altruistic egg donation. (BioNews)