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Memoir Exposes Dark Side of Egg Donation

"Grade A Baby Eggs" is a personal account of infertility, IVF and egg donation.
Courtesy of Victoria Hopewell

In July 1983, doctors at UCLA transplanted a fertilized egg from one woman into the womb of another. Nine months later, the world's first egg donation baby was born.

It's been nearly thirty years since that breakthrough, and egg or embryo donation is estimated to have brought more than 47,000 babies into the world. But the process is far from perfect.

In Grade A Baby Eggs: An Infertility Memoir, Victoria Hopewell (a pseudonym) tells her personal story and, in so doing, exposes the emotionally and ethically fraught world of egg donation.

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Mindy Todd is the host and producer of <i>The Point</i> on WCAI which examines critical issues for Cape Cod and the Islands. She brings more than 40 years of experience in radio and television to WCAI.