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Fertility clinics harvest eggs from women every day. Some of those eggs could be donated for research.

Example: Clinics harvests 12 eggs from a layd, 1 egg needed for IVF, IVF is succesful (baby born), lady is now happy to donate the remaining 11 eggs to science.

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Some nitpicks: * IVF involves retrieval and then fertilization of eggs. There’s not usually leftover unfertilized eggs unless the woman is banking her eggs. * The success rates my partner and I have been quoted mean that we want to keep as many embryos as possible in case we need to try again. I think it would be really unethical to ask a woman to give up any good eggs or euploid embryos as they can be hard to get in some cases.

The shots a woman has to give herself daily to stimulate follicle production are no joke. That would be a lot to put someone through purely for research. It’s not as simple as that. And it’s wishful thinking to expect any woman to do that.

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