Episodes

Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
The BioEthics of Posthumous Reproduction
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Wednesday Jun 25, 2025
Join our host, Mary Fusillo, for a fascinating look at the ethics and issues behind posthumous reproduction. With the very sad case of a brain-dead woman being forcibly kept alive via mechanical means for over 15 weeks due to abortion laws in her home state prominent in the news to the use of sperm from non consenting males, our guest, Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein, the Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, will discuss what she sees as issues with Autonomy and Beneficence with posthumous reproduction.
AND....take a look at her newest book, "SEMINAL, on Sperm, Health and Politics at this LINK: SEMINAL, on Sperm, Health and Politics

Friday Jun 13, 2025
Donor's Experiences with Disclosure and Genetic Connections
Friday Jun 13, 2025
Friday Jun 13, 2025
On this episode of "The Eggsplanation" I welcome two veteran egg donors who will help me dig down into what disclosure in gamete donation means to them and what their thoughts are on the genetic connections they have to the children created with their help.

Sunday Jun 01, 2025
So...What's so wrong with Anonymous Donor Cycles?
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
In Episode Two of “The Eggsplanation”, Mary discusses two bioethical principles, Justice and Beneficence in gamete donor cycles with a Third-Party Parenting attorney and the evolution from anonymous donor cycles to known or open cycles with the owners of an Egg Donor and Surrogacy agency that has started down a new path in sperm donation.
Rose Pondel joins us to break down the various legal contracts that donors can enter prior to donating and what each can mean for the donor, the Intended Parents and the child and then Darlene Pinkerton and Kaitlin Pinkerton-Locher pick up the conversation and discuss how they are taking on the traditional field of sperm donation with known sperm donors, a departure from traditional anonymous cycles.

Tuesday May 06, 2025
Introducing... The Eggsplanation
Tuesday May 06, 2025
Tuesday May 06, 2025
Mary Fusillo, RN, BSN, MS, introduces you to bioethics at the intersection of fertility and reproduction.
Stay tuned for our first full episode, coming in late May.