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Follow on Google News | New Organization Filling Growing Need For Specialized Fertility Treatment SupportFertility treatment can be a difficult, complex, and often a secretive journey – even more so when couples or singles are not able to have children using their own eggs. But a new support group, Parents Via Egg Donation Organization offers help.
By: Marna Gatlin The global nonprofit organization has more than 2500 members who have joined the group seeking information, resources, and support as they go through the egg donation process. The membership includes couples and singles of various religions, races and sexual orientations. “Many of these individuals didn’t feel like they had any means of receiving support, getting educated, becoming empowered, or had a voice,” said Founder Marna Gatlin, who conceived her son with egg donation. “Often they felt isolated.” Gatlin has run a small e-mail listserv for years, but recently realized the need for a central resource and created PVED. “I decided to create an organization that would embrace every parent who had chosen egg donation to grow their family,” said Gatlin. “And I took the idea a step further: this resource would be a global resource for unbiased, timely, and accurate information about egg donation, eliminating the need to search far and wide for piecemeal information and answers.” The organization offers how to information: PVED’s official website will go live October 1st, 2008: http://parentsviaeggdonation.org The Parents Via Egg Donation Organization was created to provide an informational and supportive environment where parents and parents-to-be can come together to exchange information about all facets of the egg donation process. Our mission and purpose is to educate, support, and empower families and individuals at any stage of the process who choose to use egg donation to build a family. “Wherever you are in the process, there is a place in our community for you." # # # PVED offers unbiased, timely, and accurate information regarding egg donation, egg donors, fertility clinics, egg donor agencies, medical testing, as well as legal information regarding egg donor contracts. End
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