The class of women who sold human eggs to the clinics of Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) and/or American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) was partially certified by a San Francisco federal judge, reports Courthouse News Service.
The class action claims that SART and ASRM created a price fixing scheme for human eggs in violation of the Sherman Act.
One of the class action’s complaints is the 393 SART member clinics comprise 85 percent of practicing assisted reproductive technology clinics in the United States
Another primary complaint, reported by Courthouse News, is that “egg donors are paid the same hourly rate as sperm donors, though egg donation procedures are lengthy, painful and potentially dangerous, while sperm donations are not.”
The class action was filed in 2011 by Justine Levy and merged with a similar complaint from Lindsay Kamakahi in 2012.
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The plaintiffs requested the class to be defined as “all women who, from April 12, 2007 to the present, donated eggs to any SART member clinic or assisted-reproduction egg agency that agreed to follow the ASRM’s maximum price rules,” according to Courthouse News.
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