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[quote=Anonymous]I would counsel my husband to do this in your circumstances if he was asked.  As someone who had fertility issues, there are many difficult choices involved in this process and if we could help one of his siblings have a bio connection to his or her child because that connection was very important to them, I would say to do it.  The parents are the ones who raise the child, not the ones who donate the genetic material.  However, I can tell you as someone who used anonymous donor eggs to have my own child, a genetic connection is not that big a deal to many people.  It doesn't really bother me that I don't have the same genes as my child, a fact that really surprised me after I got pregnant. I had no choice in using donor eggs because it was my only option if I wanted to have a child, and it truly, truly makes no difference in how our family feels or works.  When he is older, my son may have questions, but I feel like if the information is presented thoughtfully, it is not something that will be too hard for him to handle.  Don't necessarily assume that your SIL feels that a bio connection is a necessary part of this process, although if she thinks it is after carefully examining the question, what a nice offer for your husband to make. [/quote]

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