Resources
Below are several resources that will provide more information on the topic of Jewish egg donation and fertility. We will add to this list as more information becomes available.
•If you have questions about infertility and/or what’s new in reproductive medicine, visit:
Resolve: the National Infertility Association
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Your Gamete, Myself: The use of donor eggs for in vitrofertilization is growing, and the questions are multiplying: Whose eggsto choose? When to tell the kids? What, in the end, is an authentic
motherhood?" by Peggy Orenstein (The New York Times Magazine, July 15 2007)
The Fall 2006 issue (No. 12) of Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues entitled Women's Health, Reproduction, and Body Politics which includes an article called The Uses and Misuses of In
Vitro Fertilization in Israel: Some Sociological and Ethical Considerations by Carmel Shalev and Sigal Gooldin. To order online,visit http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/.
As written about in “The Egg Matchmaker,” NY LifeSpring LLC seeks to match women who cannot or should not conceive children using their own eggs with healthy, well-balanced, young women who wish to donate.
Religion Link reports on how Jewish women are doing their best to be fruitful and multiply.
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•To read more about how Jewish law looks at infertility treatment:
In Vitro Fertilization: Legal and Ethical Considerations by Fred Rosner
Check out the article "Assisted Reproduction and Judaism” in the Jewish Virtual Library.
"Halachic Issues in Infertility Treatment” in Nishmat: The Jerusalem Center for Advanced Jewish Study of Women.
Disclaimer:
At the time of publication, all of these links work. We apologize if they stop working in the future. Sometimes links "go dead," and there is nothing we can technically do about it.
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