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sperm donation?

Jul 15, 2006 by ellyduck | Posted in Other - Pregnancy & Parenting

Anyone know of any websites etc for sperm donation? The only ones ive tried cost a fortune per donation. (some £600 per donation) I cant afford anything like this, not when it could take months and months.

do you mean you would like to donate or you would like a donor?

Going through medical channels always costs a lot of money. I could suggest a one night stand or a friend to help but I'm not sure you'd be up for that.

Sperm Donation?

Sep 14, 2006 by lisaandmax | Posted in Other - Pregnancy & Parenting

I have a friend who donated sperm in 2000 and is keen to know if any children were born of his donation. The clinic he donated to will not divulge the information as the donation was made prior to the change in law of April this year. He was under the impression that he would be able to find out at some point if any children were born. Can the HFEA provide this information?

They are not allowed to provide this information, and likely would not be able to have done so even before the new HIPPA laws went into effect. They should have informed him of this during the donation process. People are very private about their fertility and if they were artificially inseminated, even more so. His sperm are anonymous now. They belong to whoever received them.

Sperm donation?

Nov 26, 2007 by Oryx | Posted in Men's Health

How much do men typically receive when they donate sperm?

What are the general qualifications? Will they turn someone away for being short? (5'6" for example)
Uhh fyi, I'm not planning on having a kid. I have a friend that wants to donate sperm. Hence why I asked how much sperm donors get...not how much sperm costs.

This question can be genetic enhancement.

In Montana we chose the right bull &cow to maximize ower profits.

Sperm donation is one sided on both parties.

To raise a child, you need both parties.

Choose the right man, you get the sperm for free, and the help you need financially and support of raising a child.

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Science Up Front: Born Identity: Elizabeth Marquardt on Anonymous ...

by Kara Rogers

We are all born with an identity, a unique character that comes from the combining of our parents’ genes and that is shaped by interactions with our mothers and fathers.  Defining personal and social identity for the thousands of U.S. children born each year through artificial insemination , however, is far more complicated.  And according to a recent report titled “My Daddy’s Name is Donor,” released by the Commission on Parenthood’s Future, the social and medical ramifications of anonymous sperm donation in the United States may be far more significant for donor-conceived individuals than is widely believed.

“The need to know your father, and the grief [felt] when one’s father is not in one’s life, is not a recent social construction,” explained Elizabeth Marquardt, vice president for family studies at the Institute for American Values and lead author on the report.  “Our civilization’s great cultural stories, from ancient Mesopotamia through to the Bible and Shakespeare and to the present era, such as the Star Wars films (Darth Vader: ‘Luke, I am your father’), affirm the great importance to the human child of knowing and being known by his or her own father.”

The anonymous trade of sperm and eggs has become a major issue worldwide, and some countries, including Britain, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and some parts of Australia, have banned anonymous donation.  Other countries have introduced new laws guiding donation practices, including limiting the number of offspring that can be sired by a single donor and introducing registries that allow donors and offspring to find one another.

But while policies have changed elsewhere, they have received little attention in the United States.  “Right now, the United States is the wild west of the world when it comes to reproductive technologies,” Marquardt said.  “[Here], what law and policy does exist is designed explicitly to protect the preferred rights of parents and would-be parents and donors.  The offspring have no right to know where they come from.”

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