An egg donor program is a truely sensitive and delicate matter and access to as much information as possible is required.  Whilst often recipients of donor eggs request access to egg donors pictures, this is allowed in South Africa to the extent that these pictures are of the egg donors ars children.

 

The South African legislation in respect of egg donation enforces anonymity for egg donors, so any form of identifying egg donors is not allowed.  The egg donor legislation does not specifically restrict the showing of adult egg donors pictures.  This controversy caused the association of fertility and third party reproduction reproduction specialists to assess the situation in further deptth.  Accordingly it was decided to only show childhood pictures.

 

The benefit of childhood pictures is it enables egg donation recipients to get an idea of the egg donor's traits and facial features.  But sometimes egg donors do not have access to any pictures of themselves as children or have poor quality pictures.

 

These are contraints that we have attempted to work within.  Remaining ethical and professional and rendering of a quality egg donor service is of utmost importance to the egg donor agency, so compliance with matters pertaining to egg donors pictures is required and maintained.  Further details on this topic and fre access to an extensive egg donor database is available on www.baby2mom.co.za the quality egg donor site!