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Singaporeans head to Malaysia, elsewhere to find IVF egg donors
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From January next year, women aged 45 and older will be allowed to undergo in-vitro fertilisation here.
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Singaporeans have travelled as far as the United States and Australia to find an egg donor to help them have a baby, but many have also gone to Malaysia, checks by The Straits Times showed.
Ms Christine Gautaman, who runs Heart to ART, a firm in Selangor that matches couples to egg donors, told ST about 20 per cent of her clients are Singaporeans who require an egg donor, a surrogate mother, or both.
