News: Donor conception

Updated: Jul 11/10

By Country
• Australia
• Canada
• Croatia
• Ireland
• New Zealand
• UK
• USA

By Issue
• Health issues
• 'Double donation' (using both donated sperm AND eggs to create an embryo)
• Limits (on the number of donations/birtths/families per donor)
• Payment
• Religion
• Reunion

• Where in the World Is Octodad?
(By Kay S. Hymowitz. Feb 20/09. Wall Street Journal)
Sperm banks and fertility doctors hardly bear sole responsibility for defining fathers down to chromosome factories. Clearly, donors themselves happily agree to their downgraded status.

• Inside the Mind of the Octuplets’ Father
(By Dr. Keith Ablow, FOX News. Feb 11/09)
The Suleman [octuplets] case exposes gnawing ethical questions that are not asked frequently enough about the whole process of sperm and egg donation. At what ethical cost does a society decide to sever every meaningful connection between millions of human beings and their offspring?

• Human egg-trafficking scam uncovered in Romania (Aug 3/09. BioNews #519)
• Are Sperm Donors Really Anonymous Anymore? DNA testing makes them easy to trace. (Mar 1/10. Slate)
• The anonymous donor dilemma: To google or not to google?  In the Google age, there’s no longer a guarantee of 100% anonymity for egg or sperm donors. But what’s a parent to do with what they find out? (By Alison Motluk. Apr 18/10. The Globe & Mail)
• Sperm donor children share experiences in new research (BioEdge, Apr 28/10)
• The Birds and the Bees (via the Fertility Clinic) (May 30/10. The New York Times. By Op-Ed Columnist Ross Douthat) 
• Life's essence, bought and sold. What are children's rights when it comes to their origins? (By Margaret Somerville. Jul 11/10. Globe & Mail)