- The Weekend Intelligence: 17 siblings and counting

Sperm and egg donation is increasingly common: nearly one in five births following IVF treatment in Britain involves a donor. 

But what happens to the children created? There are, globally, no limits on how many children each donor can produce, which can lead to large sibling groups, and no international agreement on if they can find out their donor’s identity.

Harriet Shawcross, who has two children via donor conception with her wife, speaks to some of the women trying to change the narrative.  

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