Experts warn that there are no restrictions on making sperm or eggs available for additional fertility treatments abroad, which contradicts the strict ten-family limit that applies in the UK.
Read more in the Guardian.
Dr Grace Halden, senior lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, told the Guardian she was unaware of the possibility of her donor's sperm being exported. 'I selected a UK donor that I believed would be used for a maximum of ten families. Everybody makes different decisions, but for me I wanted to keep the donor sibling pool as small as I could within my control.'
Read more in a further Guardian article talking to people affected.
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