The PFC Egg Donation Program is designed to be anonymous, and as a rule recipients and
their selected egg donors do not meet or correspond freely with each other.
If you need an egg donor, Circle staff helps
you select an egg donor and coordinates a surrogacy journey that allows you to work with the IVF clinic of your choice or, if needed, can make recommendations to connect you to a clinic with which you can work.
The program enables intended parents to
select egg donors who most resemble their physical looks.
Before
selecting an egg donor, patients are required to complete a series of appointments to ready them for the egg donation process.
Carriers are heavily screened, he explains, in a process that's similar to
selecting an egg donor.
Not exact matches
According to news reports, one seminar attendee won the chance to
select her «ideal
donor egg based on its mother's profession, ethnic background, hair colour, qualifications and upbringing».
This procedure follows the same protocol as IVF, except the intended parents
select a
donor and use the
donor's
egg to create the embryo.
Historically, surrogate mothers were also genetically - related to the babies they carried, but nowadays most intended parents either use their own
eggs or
select eggs from
donors as a separate facet of the surrogacy process.
Circle has joined a
select few agencies in the fertility industry that have access to an advanced facial recognition software, which assists intended parents in finding the right
egg donor.
This eliminates the possibility of two intended parents simultaneously
selecting you as an
egg donor.
Individuals or couples
select a
donor from someone known to them, such as a friend or family member, or choose an anonymous
egg donor from our carefully
selected list.