[sodpoodle]

First we had puppy mills - but at least the AKC registered the litters!!!!!

I always found this both disgusting and terrifying. Does not the Bible admonish men to "not spill their seed"?

Wisdom - lost for the ages.

[DannyTN]

I think the real issue in that story was the treatment of the wife and the husbands refusal to let her have a child, not the spilling of seed per se.

This would fall under sex outside of wedlock and bringing life into the world without providing the fathering that was meant to be.

[Jonty30]

At $50/pop, child support forever.

[count-your-change]

What a sick and immoral business.

[Impy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/nyregion/an-american-family-mom-sperm-donor-lover-child.html

I don’t like it.

[philman_36]

Does not the Bible admonish men to "not spill their seed"?
Don' take it out of context. A man didn't impregnate his wife. The child would be a forefather in the line of David and thus of Christ. If no child was born to this woman then that line never would have been.

Lays it out well...TAMAR, FOREMOTHER OF DAVID

[Biggirl]

Got to remember that also in the same book of Genesis, Abraham, seeing that his wife Sarah did not have a child, Sarah directed Abraham to father a child via Hagar, the maid-servant.

[Vinnie]

At least in the ‘hood the guys do it the old fashioned way.

I’ve said for 40+ years sperm donation is a mistake.
Their must be enough sperm on ice to repopulation the world.

At some point the sexual act will be omitted from procreation. :(

[wolfcreek]

One bad apple could explain the rise in liberalism.

[wolfcreek]

One bad apple could explain the rise in liberalism.

[wolfcreek]

One bad apple could explain the rise in liberalism.

[tanknetter]

Whitehurst could be the father of 42 to 60 children

And in all likelihood those children all live in the same geographic area. I wonder what the odds are of two of them meeting and, not knowing that they're half-siblings, ending up in a relationship that results in marriage?

[Chickensoup]

This isnt my cup of tea.

However my first thought was isnt it nice that high end sperm donors are spreading it around instead of the usual low end low lifes.

[Travis McGee]

Pity the poor, lost, fatherless children.

It’s a sad, sad story for them.

[Kenton]

Wow. And I sold blood when I was in college.

[Cincinatus]

The perils of turning pro and a testament to keeping your amateur status.

[Yaelle]

People, please realize, especially after Father's Day yesterday, that a father is a man who raises a child. He fathers! Borrowing genetics from a 3rd party does Not Make that 3rd party a parent.

If a couple can't have the child they long for more than anything in the world, they can fight infertility by adoption or gamete donation. Neither is a moral failing. These options are ways to love and raise children. Genetics do not matter in love or childrearing.

Other than foster-to-adopt, adoption costs a lot of money and it's hard to get an infant (thus without serious emotional problems that may be lifelong). Using donor sperm if the father is infertile, or eggs if the mother is, would cost less, and would mean you could control the important prenatal care and early attachment and love of the baby.

The media and unthinking people love to CROW about how wrong these solutions are, how untasteful and immoral. They are wrong. The donor only provided some genetics. The donor is not a "dad" and never will be. He is only the source of some genetic traits. In the end, the genetic traits are just cocktail party conversation. What a parent Does with his child is parenting.

[longtermmemmory]

not spilled, bottled for later use.

the children are the product.

if anything this is the wet dream of feminists, fatherless offspring.