Assisted reproductive technology and women's heatlh: Who is being helped? who is being harmed?

As the market for eggs provided by younger women grows, more women decide to undergo multiple egg extraction as a way to earn income. What most of them don’t realize is that there are no good long term safety data that would enable informed choices about so-called “egg donation.” This presentation will explore what we do and don’t know about the potential harms of so-called “egg donation” (harms also that would also apply to egg freezing), the efforts of the one national voluntary registry created for all ART participants, and what several medical and advocacy groups are doing to draw attention to the need for more research and better informed consent practices.