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Sperm banks struggle to attract donors [in China]
Xinhua ^ | 6/30/13

Posted on 06/30/2013 12:17:14 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

"It feels weird to know that someone you meet on the street someday could be your child," said "Zhou Zheng," a sperm donor from north China's Hebei Province, who has complicated feelings about the donation he made a decade ago.

Back then, Zhou was a college student who decided to donate his sperm out of compassion for reproductively challenged couples. But the thought of being the biological father of a child he doesn't know scared him away from ever doing it again.

According to Chinese law, sperm donated by one person can be used to impregnate up to five women. This means that Zhou, who is married with his own child, could actually have as many as six offspring.

"Knowing I might have five other kids out there really freaks me out," he said.

Sperm banks are dealing with a worsening shortage of healthy sperm, despite repeated efforts to recruit more donors.

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"Just like blood donation, giving sperm is a humanitarian and charitable deed," Zhao said, adding that engaging the public though an education campaign could be an effective way to ease the shortage.

(Excerpt) Read more at globaltimes.cn ...


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