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Mother donates frozen eggs to daughter - Legal first means girl could one day
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http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070702/full/070702-5.html
Submitted by doctorworld 16 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 21 hours ago
A seven-year-old girl in Canada might one day give birth to her genetic half-sibling. The girl's mother has donated her own eggs to give the child, who was born with a disease that affects her ovaries, the chance to have children of her own. Melanie Boivin, a 35-year-old lawyer from Montreal, secured legal permission for the move after realizing that her daughter, Flavie, could not have children without donor eggs. Flavie has Turner syndrome, a rare condition in which one of the X chromosomes i
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