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August 2026: IVF staff accused of misleading UK parents about sperm and egg donors in northern Cyprus 

IVF staff accused of misleading UK parents about sperm and egg donors in northern Cyprus 18th August 2026 These reports are not at all surprising but deeply troubling because they strike at the heart of one of the most fundamental issues in donor conception: the right of Donor Conceived People (DCP) to know the truth…

Reverse the law that allows freezing of gametes for up to 55 years for the purposes of family building. This is felt to be far too long ethically and not in the best interests of donor conceived people. Having genetic siblings that are potentially 55 years older than them and biological parents that are potentially…

Illegal to purchase or trade gametes on social media in the UK (like certain social media platforms don’t allow animals to be bought or traded). Human life should NEVER be created “informally”. Far better record keeping in Fertility clinics – the debacle we are seeing now with HFEA Errors. All Historical Recipient Parents (RP’s) tell…

1880s. – first public record of donor insemination (AID). Iin the USA.  Carried out without the woman’s knowledge; husband informed afterwards By mid twentieth century – several UK clinics. AID considered socially and morally unacceptable.  Only for heterosexual couples – told it was better for children not to know.  Later emerged doctors were not always…

According to recent research published in 2026, there are over 350,000 unregulated sperm donors in the UK.

At Donor Conceived UK, we are finding that many Donor Conceived People (DCP) who were created via IVF also turn out to be Donor Conceived.

In the donor conceived experience, it is quite common for Donor Conceived People (DCP) to be estranged from their raising parents.

When you create a Donor Conceived Person (DCP) using anonymous gametes or anonymous embryo’s you are creating a child, a person, a human being, with a stranger. Raising a stranger’s child often comes with many, many complexities. Most of those complexities fall to the DCP, the person who had no choice over how they were…

Below is a letter that a Recipient Mother received from Margaret Jackson in 1980, after she wrote to Margaret Jackson saying that she had read an article (see the article in question below) that stated that children conceived by Artificial Insemination by Donor Semen (AID as it was known in 1980, now Donor Conceived) should…