"...growing number of midlife women coming to
U.S. infertility clinics to get pregnant w/ donated
eggs implanted w/in vitro fertilization.
The women are mainly from Canada, Australia
& some parts of Europe, where tough laws forbid
the payment of egg donors & limit those seeking to
become pregnant to using eggs from a young friend
or family member or from a small pool of unpaid donors. "
(Suzanne Leigh, USA TODAY)
Read more...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-05-02-reproductive-tourism_x.htm
"The term ‘reproductive tourism’ is inaccurate
because ‘tourism’ means travelling by pleasure,
and by no means do infertile couples travel by pleasure.
‘Reproductive tourism’ is also inappropriate
because it trivializes infertility problems.
In fact the term could seem frivolous and
offensive for couples seeking reproductive assistance abroad,
and also for professionals involved in assisted reproductive
techniques. Nobody uses the term ‘labour tourism’ with
reference to immigrants, or oncological tourism or
cardiological tourism for those patients travelling
to another country to be assisted in better conditions.
The term ‘reproductive exile’, in our opinion,
is more sensitive w/ infertility patients.
(Roberto Matorras, President of the Spanish Society of Fertility)
Read more:
http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/20/12/3571
