Mother to Freeze Eggs for her Daughter

A 36 year old woman from Montreal, Canada has made a decision to freeze some of her own eggs for her 7 year old daughter to use if she ever decides that she wants to have children in the future. The girl was born with a genetic condition called Turner?s Syndrome which essentially causes ovarian problems and sterility due to a missing or incomplete X chromosome. While some have applauded the decision, others are questioning the ethical issues surrounding the process.

Freezing eggs for donation or later use is not a rare occurrence these days. There have been reported cases of sisters donating eggs to their infertile siblings or friends doing the same. Women who undergo chemotherapy or other treatment that can damage their eggs will have them removed and frozen so that they can be inserted back into a surrogate mother in later years. However, there has never been a case of a mother to daughter donation of eggs in medical history.

Although this case has been endorsed and reviewed by the prominent McGill University Health Center, there are many who feel uncomfortable with the scenario of the child becoming mother to her half-sibling in later years. It will also make the donator both a mother and a grandmother at once. However, the director of the McGill Reproductive Center refuted these sentiments and stated, ?She is donating her eggs to help her daughter to have children. It?s mother?s love? It?s like donating a kidney to your own child, nobody will have problem with that.?

                                 

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