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...despite the event's bleak inspiration, things at the Unemployment Olympics are generally cheerful. Contestants yell and clap and egg each other on, and no one seems upset when the Payday piñata breaks on the very first try - revealing Payday candybars. With New York easing its way into spring, being outdoors under a blue sky is almost as refreshing as the chance to stab a thumbtack into a fat, balding, caricature of a boss...
...trouble is that many donors may not be aware of the risks. Judy Norsigian, executive director of the Boston-based nonprofit Our Bodies Ourselves, says that when her organization makes presentations on college campuses, she consistently finds that women who are considering egg donation - or worse, those who have already donated - are uninformed about the potential health risks associated with the procedure. (Read "How Much Is a Year of Life Worth...
...recent study of past donors seems to support Norsigian's impressions. In an article published in Fertility and Sterility in November 2008, researchers found, for example, that 34% of former egg donors didn't recall being aware at the time of donation of the risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, the most common side effect. The majority of donors experience at least the mild or moderate form of this syndrome, which involves discomfort, bloating or nausea and usually resolves itself on its own. The severe version of this syndrome is rare - only 100 to 200 for every 100,000 women...
...thing the fertility industry and some of its harshest critics appear to agree on, however: the need for an egg-donor registry. If there were a centralized repository for donor records, Ginsburg and Schneider believe, patient follow-up and long-term studies could be conducted. But the challenge is settling on the right kind of registry. After consulting with the ASRM, in January, advocates in the fertility industry founded a nonprofit voluntary registry of egg and sperm donors. It is still unclear who will pay for it, how it will work and what role the ASRM will play in maintaining...
...California Assemblyman Marty Block has also sought government intervention, and in January considered proposing legislation to establish a statewide egg-donor registry. But realizing that such a costly endeavor would have little chance for success given the state's budget woes, Block settled on a more recession-friendly action. In late February, he presented a bill that would require all advertisements promising thousands of dollars to egg donors to carry some fine print. It would inform women that there's not much information on the long-term risks of donating...