Last autumn's Act on Assisted Fertility Treatments led to a temporary plunge in available egg donors. The Family Federation however now says donors are slowly making their way back to the fertility clinics. Nonetheless, there is a persistent lack of egg donors, says the Tampere-based newspaper.
According to the new legislation, fertility treatments are limited to using the eggs and sperm of donors whose identities are known and registered.
Eero Varila of the Family Federation says the law has brought a new generation of donors to the clinics. These newcomers find it only natural that the children borne from their cells are upon adulthood able to learn the identity of the donors that provided them with their genetics.