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Glossary

Gamete

A reproductive cell, either the male sperm or the female egg.



Articles using this Glossary Item

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Ethical principles and the HFEA's donation review

- by Professor Stephen Wilkinson

At a public meeting on 19 October, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) decided to move to a 'flat rate' system of monetary compensation for egg donors. The HFEA also decided to leave the regulations governing egg sharing substantially unchanged. Critics have already raised concerns about the quality of the discussion at the meeting, I want to look at a quite different issue: the use made by the HFEA of the idea of 'ethical principles'... [Read More]

Your thoughts about donor conception, conditionality and adoption

20 May 2013 - by Sandy Starr

Should gamete donors be allowed to place conditions on who receives their donation? And should those considering having children via donor conception be encouraged to adopt instead?... [Read More]

Response to Ben Saer

20 May 2013 - by Olivia Montuschi

In addressing egg-donation dad-to-be Ben Saer's points in his BioNews article, it is hard to know where to start. Good parenting is of course supportive and protective, but it does not resolve the desire of some people to know more about who helped create them... [Read More]

Australian IVF doctor not liable for failing to warn about the risk of a hereditary condition

13 May 2013 - by Cait McDonagh

The parents of a child born with a rare blood clotting disorder have lost their legal battle against an IVF doctor for wrongful birth after he failed to warn them of the risks of passing on the hereditary condition... [Read More]

Mother forces 14-year old to become pregnant with donor sperm

07 May 2013 - by Ayesha Ahmad

A woman has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of forcing her adopted teenage daughter to artificially inseminate herself.... [Read More]

Book Review: Reproductive Technologies as Global Form - Ethnographies of Knowledge, Practices and Transnational Encounters

07 May 2013 - by Robert Pralat

Reading 'Reproductive technologies as global form' provides insights into what ethnographers find out about 'national IVF-cultures' during their fieldwork, but it also invites us to engage with theoretical considerations of an academic discipline... [Read More]

Why we should welcome the conclusions of the Nuffield report on donor conception

29 April 2013 - by Professor Carol Smart

From my point of view as a sociologist carrying out research in this field, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics report on donor conception is to be welcomed as a scholarly and balanced contribution to current debates... [Read More]

Podcast: Being - The Donor-Conceived Perspective

22 April 2013 - by James Brooks

A podcast produced as part of the When It Takes More Than Two project organised by the Progress Educational Trust... [Read More]

Nuffield report: Parents should decide whether or not to 'tell'

22 April 2013 - by Dr Wybo Dondorp

The Nuffield Council report rightly rejects the call to pressurising parents into compliance, as this abstract ideal of openness disallows them to make their own moral judgements about what is best in their situation and for their family... [Read More]

The mother isn't always certain: Irish surrogacy case leads the way

11 March 2013 - by Dr Kirsty Horsey

Once upon a time, motherhood was certain. It was proved by giving birth. The Latin maxim 'mater semper certa est' that told us so was irrefutable. Whether or not that was ever actually true, it has for a long while been biologically, as well as socially, questionable.... [Read More]

US sperm donor sues clinic for using his sperm to impregnate ex-girlfriend

04 March 2013 - by Tom Barrow

A man from Louisiana is attempting to sue a fertility clinic after accusing his ex-girlfriend of stealing his stored gametes. Layne Hardin has alleged that former partner Tobie Devall 'bluffed' her way into obtaining two vials of his sperm, which she was inseminated with.... [Read More]

Do you know your sister?

04 March 2013 - by Dr Ruth Shidlo

Once again, the voices of people and families conceived as a result of gamete donation in Israel are going unheeded... [Read More]

Being: The Donor-Conceived Perspective

04 March 2013 - by Cait McDonagh

Another full house for the final event of Progress Educational Trust's 'When it Takes More Than Two' series. This time attendees were invited to consider gamete donation from the perspective of the donor conceived... [Read More]

US sperm and egg donors may be unconsenting contributors to stem cell science

25 February 2013 - by Maria Sheppard

Human embryonic stem cell lines approved for federal funding in the USA, may have been derived from sperm or eggs of unconsenting donors... [Read More]

The role of counsellors in infertility clinics

04 February 2013 - by Dr Ellie Lee, Dr Jan Macvarish and Professor Sally Sheldon

Counselling has become an increasingly central – and sometimes mandatory – part of the provision of infertility treatment services in the UK, although its role is not always clearly defined. In a recent research project, we interviewed sixty-six staff, with different roles at twenty clinics that provide infertility treatment services (around one quarter of the total). Our research offered some interesting insights into the role of counsellors in this process.... [Read More]

Receiving: The Recipient Parent Perspective

28 January 2013 - by Cait McDonagh

The second debate in the Progress Educational Trust's project 'When It Takes More Than Two' took place at University College London last week. The debate, 'Receiving: The Recipient Parent Perspective', focused on the views of those who have received donor gametes to begin their families.... [Read More]

Donor conception in the UK: the seldom-heard voices of minority ethnic communities

21 January 2013 - by Nicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley

When we set out over ten years ago to carry out research about infertility within British South Asian communities, little was known about how involuntary childlessness and its possible resolution with assisted conception was experienced by members of minority ethnic communities in the UK... [Read More]

'Just' giving: PET's evening debate on gamete donation from the donor perspective

14 January 2013 - by Antony Blackburn-Starza

The image of the sperm donor nipping off between lectures to casually donate for a few quid of beer money was neatly set aside by this thought-provoking debate. In his place, in strode the complex male – knowledgeable, thoughtful, sensitive… and probably over 25... [Read More]

An unfortunate step backward for donor conception in Canada

14 January 2013 - by Dr Juliet Guichon and Dr Vardit Ravitsky

People conceived by donor gametes in Canada do not have a right to access their progenitors' medical records or identities. To change this reality, Olivia Pratten brought litigation in October 2008 against the government of British Columbia, where she was donor-conceived about 30 years ago... [Read More]

The mince pie problem

17 December 2012 - by Sarah Norcross

Someone who came to our event this week 'Giving: The Gamete Donor Perspective' very kindly brought some mince pies for us. She brought 30 mince pies. I gave two boxes away to stalwart volunteers. But this generous gift posed a problem... [Read More]

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Events using this Glossary Item

 

Running for Answers
16 September 2009  Club Med Athenia, Marathon 19007, Attica, Greece
The 7th European Congress on Reproductive Immunology... [Read More]
Pacific Rim Society for Fertility and Sterility Conference
20 August 2009  Taipei International Convention Centre, 1 Hsin Yi Road, Section 5, Taipei 11049, Taiwan
The 7th Conference of the Pacific Rim Society for Fertility and Sterility... [Read More]


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