Angelica Cheng
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Please share your experiences with foreign egg donor / donation agencies and individual freelance egg donors.
At a local private fertility clinic that I consulted, a nurse hinted to me that I can secretly use a Malaysian, Thai or International egg donor agency to discreetly send an egg donor to Singapore. But payment must be kept secret. The donor and the recipient couple must sign a form declaring that the donor is unpaid and donating her eggs altruistically to us.
The nurse also hinted to me that the doctor and fertility counselor may suspect or secretly know that we are using a foreign agency and paying the egg donor, but they will be willing to 'close one eye' and look the other way. After all, the signed declaration form stating that the donor is unpaid absolves the doctor and IVF clinic from any legal liability for any secret payment to the donor. All legal liability (criminal perjury and bribery) will now fall on the recipient couple and the egg donor.
Additionally, the nurse also warned me against using individual freelance egg donors who offer their services online, as there is no money-back guarantee. For example, freelance egg donors may renege on their agreement after receiving some payment, and it would be difficult for me to sue her to return my money, as the payment was illegal in the first place and that I would only implicate myself in an illegal transaction if I were to commence legal proceedings. Moreover, it is rather difficult to monitor and ensure freelance egg donors regularly follow the painful and tedious procedure of hormone injections required for ovarian stimulation.
She also pointed out the advantages of using a foreign egg donor agency instead of an individual freelance donor. For example, most egg donor agencies will get a coordinator to accompany the donor on her travel to Singapore, who will ensure that she injects herself punctiliously with fertility hormones during the ovarian stimulation cycle. Many agencies will also give you a new replacement donor free-of-charge, if no eggs are retrieved, or if the donor gets sick and backs out half-way. Furthermore, the agency coordinator will also coach the egg donor to say the right things to the fertility counselor, since it is compulsory for the donor to receive counseling before the egg donation procedure.
In hindsight, I realized that all these must actually be the doctor's idea, and that he was using his nurse to relay such information to me, so as not to breach the medical professional code of conduct and ethics. All legal liability will be on us, since we have signed the form declaring that the egg donation is unpaid and altruistic. The clinic and IVF lab will be free of any legal responsibility for the secret payment, once the appropriate declaration forms have been signed by us and the donor.
The above text was adapted from the following website: https://www.msn.com/en-sg/lifestyle...oices-of-ivf-patients-in-singapore/ar-AAKcvtC
Does anyone have experience with these two international egg donor agencies?
Sunshine Egg Donation Agency: https://www.eggdonors.asia/ivf-in-malaysia/
(The attached image is a sample profile of available Chinese egg donors from this agency)
Asian Egg Donation:
At a local private fertility clinic that I consulted, a nurse hinted to me that I can secretly use a Malaysian, Thai or International egg donor agency to discreetly send an egg donor to Singapore. But payment must be kept secret. The donor and the recipient couple must sign a form declaring that the donor is unpaid and donating her eggs altruistically to us.
The nurse also hinted to me that the doctor and fertility counselor may suspect or secretly know that we are using a foreign agency and paying the egg donor, but they will be willing to 'close one eye' and look the other way. After all, the signed declaration form stating that the donor is unpaid absolves the doctor and IVF clinic from any legal liability for any secret payment to the donor. All legal liability (criminal perjury and bribery) will now fall on the recipient couple and the egg donor.
Additionally, the nurse also warned me against using individual freelance egg donors who offer their services online, as there is no money-back guarantee. For example, freelance egg donors may renege on their agreement after receiving some payment, and it would be difficult for me to sue her to return my money, as the payment was illegal in the first place and that I would only implicate myself in an illegal transaction if I were to commence legal proceedings. Moreover, it is rather difficult to monitor and ensure freelance egg donors regularly follow the painful and tedious procedure of hormone injections required for ovarian stimulation.
She also pointed out the advantages of using a foreign egg donor agency instead of an individual freelance donor. For example, most egg donor agencies will get a coordinator to accompany the donor on her travel to Singapore, who will ensure that she injects herself punctiliously with fertility hormones during the ovarian stimulation cycle. Many agencies will also give you a new replacement donor free-of-charge, if no eggs are retrieved, or if the donor gets sick and backs out half-way. Furthermore, the agency coordinator will also coach the egg donor to say the right things to the fertility counselor, since it is compulsory for the donor to receive counseling before the egg donation procedure.
In hindsight, I realized that all these must actually be the doctor's idea, and that he was using his nurse to relay such information to me, so as not to breach the medical professional code of conduct and ethics. All legal liability will be on us, since we have signed the form declaring that the egg donation is unpaid and altruistic. The clinic and IVF lab will be free of any legal responsibility for the secret payment, once the appropriate declaration forms have been signed by us and the donor.
The above text was adapted from the following website: https://www.msn.com/en-sg/lifestyle...oices-of-ivf-patients-in-singapore/ar-AAKcvtC
Does anyone have experience with these two international egg donor agencies?
Sunshine Egg Donation Agency: https://www.eggdonors.asia/ivf-in-malaysia/
(The attached image is a sample profile of available Chinese egg donors from this agency)
Asian Egg Donation:
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