BYLINE: Kanina Foss
Egg and sperm; the two essentials for the creation of human life. The ingredients cannot be altered, there are no clever substitutes.
For couples who are missing one of the ingredients, donors help to make their dreams of creating life possible.
They do it for people they'll never meet, and bring about happiness they'll never share. They, says Jenny Currie, founder of egg donation agency, baby2mom, are angels.
Using donor eggs is one of the options available to women with early menopause, or poor ovarian reserves; women who are not falling pregnant despite repeated in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatments; or women whose ovaries have been removed, or damaged by chemotherapy.
Eggs from a healthy woman also enable a couple to have …
