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More than 100 fertility doctors in dozens of states may have brokered unauthorized transfers of human eggs, according to the bankruptcy court filing of a local company and its former records supervisor.
Options National Fertility Registry was forced out of business in 2003 after getting caught up in a tangle of lawsuits in Texas, the court filing says.
An Options donor, identified only as "Elizabeth," had contracted to donate her eggs to one infertile couple, and later learned that the doctor gave some of her eggs to a second couple without her knowledge, permission or consent, the bankruptcy documents say.
Elizabeth sued, and settled with the doctor out of court.
In the wake of this revelation, Options, of Santa Fe Springs, combed through every "post-cycle" report it received from doctors over a dozen years of business. Those reports detail how many eggs each donor produced, and what became of those eggs. Options initially found that 83 egg donation arrangements contained discrepancies and irregularities in the number of eggs retrieved, fertilized, transferred, frozen and/or disposed of.
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