Welcome to sperm-donation.net
Within these pages you should find the answers to some of the many questions you will have about sperm donation, IUI treatment and insemination; whether that be in a fertility clinic or a home insemination.
We will also provide information and insight on some of the moral implications of sperm donation; both by a known donor or an anonymous donation from a sperm bank.
And of course, we will have a breakdown of the laws surrounding sperm donation in a number of countries around the world.
Sperm donation is becoming quite commonplace nowadays as a lot of women are choosing a career over relationships and motherhood whilst in their twenties; and then find themselves single as they make their way through their thirties and make the decision to become a single mother by choice. For other people sperm donation may be the only choice if there is a male fertility problem within a relationship or the parents-to-be are a lesbian couple. Whatever the reason a person or couple go down this route it can be the simplest solution to achieving pregnancy.
If you would like to submit an article about how sperm donation has played a role in your life then please email any submissions to admin@sperm-donation.net
A new comedy is to be aired on NBC centring around a new lesbian relationship. The show called I Hate That I Love You has been written by Jhoni Marchinko, who has also been involved with shows such as Men In Trees and Will & Grace.
“A straight couple introduces two of its lesbian friends to one another and what results is both instant attraction and a pregnancy.”
Should be worth keeping an eye out for.
So in this day and age of sperm donation and assisted reproduction using IUI Treatment to help would-be parents achieve their dream. How does the law in USA recognise parentage? The answer? In many contradictory ways which can only cause confusion and heartache. The inconsistencies create an enormous amount of uncertainty ranging from inheritance rights to child support and visitation.
For instance you could perfectly legally build your family in one state and then move to another state only to find your legal rights have changed considerably. Consider now if your family was to break-up… what visitation rights would you have then… and what visitation rights might your sperm or egg donor have?
Not only are there different rulings dependent on your state of residence, there are inconsistencies within states themselves. For example in 2010 in Washington DC it was ruled in favour of two lesbians having joint parentage of their child without the need for adoption by the non-birth mother… however surrogacy is actually a felony in this state.
In Florida surrogacy agreements are perfectly legal and the distinction as to where insemination occurs is irrelevant and donors waive parental responsibilities and rights. YET Florida does not allow same-sex adoptions. Go figure?
Health authorities around the world are launching investigations into the legality of websites that connect single women, infertile couples and lesbians with men for the sole purpose of sperm donation. The websites themselves only serve as a connection point and it is left up to the individuals concerned to make their own arrangements.
As these sites are unregulated there is no official screening of donor for STIs such as HIV, which is the main concern. Also, as the laws do not recognize private sperm donation arrangements the donor may be putting himself at risk for custody should circumstances change and also being sued for child maintenance.
Fertility clinics have been accused today of exploiting women by offering reduced IVF costs in exchange for participation in egg-sharing programmes.
Professor Robert Winston, one of Britain’s leading fertility experts, is quoted as saying: “Egg-sharing is a very bad idea and an easy way of exploiting women wanting treatment. It’s a pretty devastating scenario to give eggs to someone else and that other person gets pregnant and you don’t. Then 20 years later you’re contacted by that child. It’s shocking.”
A change to the law to allow payments for egg donation would be supported by Lord Winston. Currently egg donors can only be compensated upto £250 but HFEA proposals expected this week could lead to future payments being allowed upto several thousands of pounds.
Isn’t this likely to lead to the wrong reasons for donors to come forward? Peter Bowen-Simkins, medical director of the London’s Women’s Clinic seems to think so. Unlike sperm donation, there are health risks associated with egg donation medication. “With egg sharing, women are already undergoing IVF and know the risks” he said.
Currently there are no North American jurisdictions that have legislation to force donors to be identified unlike in the UK and other European countries where sperm donation is not anonymous.
However, since the case of Olivia Pratten came to court an injunction has been granted that will not allow any more records relating to donors, that previously only had to be kept for 6 years, to be destroyed pending the out come of the case.
Olivia Pratten born in 1981 and the product of an anonymous donor has been trying to find out the identity of the donor that she knows only to have stocky build, blue eyes, brown hair and type A blood. Having had previous requests for the preservation of the donor information refused it is still unclear as to whether her records still exist. However it is not just her records that are in question; her lawsuit is asking the courts to replace the current B.C. Adoption Act of 1996 with new legislation that will include offspring conceived via egg and sperm donation. So that in essence the records become accessible to the children of donors once they become adults
An internet questionnaire by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has been issued to ask the British public their opinions about whether donors of eggs and sperm should be paid and if so how much?
Britain has been suffering a severe lack of sperm donors since the law changed regarding anonymity in 2005 and the HFEA are concerned about the numbers of British women that are importing semen from abroad for home insemination.
So will paying for donations tempt people back into donating or is the law going to have to change again???
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