Parents Via Egg Donation, or PVED, a non-profit organization was created to provide an informational and supportive environment where parents and parents-to-be can learn and share information about all facets of the egg donation process.
PVED’s mission is to educate, support, and empower families and individuals at any stage of the process who choose to use egg donation to build a family.
Portland, OR, April 1, 2010 — Marna Gatlin of Parents Via Egg Donation will be attending Illuminations in Los Angeles, California, an American Fertility Association fund raiser, honoring Guy Ringler, M.D. of California Fertility Partners and presented by Holly Robinson Peete, Actress and Philanthropist and also honoring Will Halm, ESQ. National Fertility Law Center presented by Marc Cherry, Creator, Desperate Housewives on FRIDAY, APRIL 9, SUNSET TOWER 8358 Sunset Boulevard West Hollywood, CA. The event Co-Chairs are Stuart Miller and Brenda Strong. Ms. Gatlin will be available to meet during the weekend of April 9th while in LA. Please contact Marna Gatlin: [email protected] or (503) 987.1433 to schedule an appointment.
About Parents Via Egg Donation
Parents Via Egg Donation, or PVED, a non-profit organization was created to provide an informational and supportive environment where parents and parents-to-be can learn and share information about all facets of the egg donation process.
PVED’s mission is to educate, support, and empower families and individuals at any stage of the process who choose to use egg donation to build a family.
PVED shares information about agencies, legal and medical professionals, treatment centers, mental health therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and other resources.
The Parents Via Egg Donation web site contains a wide variety of information and ideas to help intended parents in their family-building journey. If you can’t find what you are looking for, the PVED list-serves can link intended parents to others who may have had similar experiences and are happy to share their knowledge.
About Marha Gatlin, Founder of Parents Via Egg Donation:
After many years of struggling with infertility, PVED founder, Marna Gatlin, discovered that the technology to have a child through egg donation was available. She was curious, excited, and above all, hopeful that this process might be the conduit to finally achieving her lifelong dream of becoming a parent.
As she began her quest to learn about egg donation, she was frustrated by the lack of information available about this particular assisted reproduction technology. What she wanted was education and support, but she was unable to find it. She did find a small e-mail listserv called Mothers Via Egg Donation. That group became her lifeline through the process of conceiving her son, and over time she became its primary moderator.
From its beginnings in 2004 Mothers Via Egg Donation had thousands of members who shared emotional support, as well as clinic, donor agency, medication, mental health, and other information about egg donation on a daily basis. Over time, The members of MVED were approached by traditional parents, single mothers, and single fathers, as well as gay and lesbian couples who wanted to know where they fit into the arena of people who choose egg donation. Many of these individuals didn’t feel they had the means to receive support, get educated, become empowered, or have a voice. Often they felt isolated.
Taking into account these desires—as well as the fact that Mothers Via Egg Donation, while an important resource, was limited by being a list-serve — Marna Gatlin decided to create an organization that would embrace every parent who had chosen egg donation to grow their family. Her vision: a global resource for unbiased, timely, and accurate information about egg donation, eliminating the need to search far and wide for piecemeal information and answers.
PVED was created in January of 2008 and has served over 50,000 parents and parents to be since its inception
Contacting Parents Via Egg Donation through the PVED web site http://pved.org or contact Marna Gatlin at 503.987.1433 or via e-mail, [email protected]
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Marna Gatlin
Parents Via Egg Donation
Portland, OR
503.987.1433
[email protected]
http://www.PVED.org
