A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE regarding egg donation? “The conspiracy of silence makes egg donation look much rarer–and far more shameful–than it actually is. For people to get used to strange new technologies, they have to like, or at least adapt to, the consequences of those technologies. People like all these babies; society has certainly adapted to their births, with minimum dirsuption. But egg donation still sounds strange, because too many mothers and fathers pretend it isn’t happening.”