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Childless couples denied as anonymity loss scares egg and sperm donors
TimesOnline ^ | June 26 | Mark Henderson

Posted on 06/26/2008 7:04:12 AM PDT by Bushwacker777

"The removal of anonymity from sperm and egg donors has provoked a crisis in fertility treatment that is denying couples the chance to try for a baby.

Infertility therapy with donated sperm has collapsed to the lowest levels since records began, according to the first official figures, seen by The Times, since the Government banned anonymous donation in 2005.

The number of women treated with donated sperm fell by about 20 per cent, from 2,727 in 2005 to 2,107 in 2006, the first full year after the change. The number of donor insemination treatment cycles fell by 30 per cent over the same period.

Egg donation is also in serious decline: the number of treatments using “shared” eggs, offered by women in return for a discount on IVF, fell by 40 per cent between 2004 and 2006. "

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KEYWORDS: children; family; privacy; spermdonor
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You know, this is a good case of well-meaning politicians making laws that hurt more than help. Now couples may not be able to have kids and to top this off the British recently said that single women and lesbians can now qualify for IVF treatment -- talk about increasing demand while the supply is already contracted due to government interference. It is good to see there are still Brits out there wanting to have kids (non-Muslim ones that is). Alaso a lot of couples are forced to go to Denmark or Spain for insemination since these countries (like the USA) is more libertarian on the issue. Most goint to Spain want Russian donors though (lots of them in the bigger cities). One good thing is that this might improve the looks in Britain. One thing I have thought though is maybe more conservatives should donate -- there is some evidence that certain inherited personality traits can lead one to be more liberal or more conservative.
1 posted on 06/26/2008 7:04:12 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: Bushwacker777

What man is going to donate sperm if it might lead to a paternity suit and child support years down the line?


2 posted on 06/26/2008 7:05:57 AM PDT by sinanju
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To: Bushwacker777

Good, when you can’t have kids naturally, God is telling you something.


3 posted on 06/26/2008 7:08:02 AM PDT by Philly Nomad
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To: sinanju

I think it is good. Men need to stop and think...hey I’m making a baby.


4 posted on 06/26/2008 7:08:54 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Bushwacker777

If everything else in Nature is sacrosanct, why are we meddling in Nature’s plan that says “your genes cannot go forward into the pool?”


5 posted on 06/26/2008 7:09:16 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (If it is going to take 10 years, shouldn't we get started? Drill here, drill now, pay less.)
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To: Philly Nomad
Good, when you can’t have kids naturally, God is telling you something.

Not quite inclusive enough, it should read:

Good, when you can’t have INSULIN naturally, God is telling you something.

6 posted on 06/26/2008 7:13:14 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (OVERPRODUCTION......... one of the top five worries for American farmers.)
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To: sinanju

“What man is going to donate sperm if it might lead to a paternity suit and child support years down the line?”

Laws in Europe and in the USA shield donors from any parental obligations whether the donation is annonomous or not. The only cases where suits have hit donors is when a woman has a friend donate to her and no legal contract exists to make sure he is not obligated as a parent.


7 posted on 06/26/2008 7:14:39 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: NonValueAdded

No, you really aren’t cheating nature. If a man is sterile, and his wife isn’t, then it’s your genes and her’s going into the gene pool — his will go extinct. In that respect it could be rather eugenic.


8 posted on 06/26/2008 7:17:47 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: Bushwacker777

“The removal of anonymity from sperm and egg donors has provoked a crisis in fertility treatment that is denying couples the chance to try for a baby.”

::sniffsniff:: B...b...but that is soooo unfayerrrrr!!

AWwWWwww...How can they have a BAAAAA...by?

Lord, I am so sick of whining.....


9 posted on 06/26/2008 7:36:04 AM PDT by Adder (typical bitter white person)
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To: Bushwacker777

Making babies with “donated” sperm or eggs is against nature. People who can’t have a child the normal way, should not have one, except through adoption.


10 posted on 06/26/2008 7:43:30 AM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
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To: Philly Nomad

“Good, when you can’t have kids naturally, God is telling you something.”

So what is God telling you when your thyroid goes haywire, your heart beats irregularly, your kidneys falter? I guess we should just let people like that die or suffer?


11 posted on 06/26/2008 7:44:33 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: Bushwacker777

How are the Dems going to have babies if the have to depend on the balls of Conservatives?


12 posted on 06/26/2008 7:46:20 AM PDT by Haddit (A Hunter Conservative)
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To: BooksForTheRight.com

“People who can’t have a child the normal way, should not have one...”

People whose kidneys can’t clean out impurities the “normal” way, shouldn’t have dialysis. People whose hearts don’t beat the normal way, shouldn’t have pacemakers put in.

I could go on and on.


13 posted on 06/26/2008 7:48:04 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: Bushwacker777

They destroyed adoption, now this.

Typical liberals.


14 posted on 06/26/2008 7:50:20 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Philly Nomad
Good, when you can’t have kids naturally, God is telling you something.

So, you thought all those pills, antibiotics and vaccines grew on trees and herbs? I wonder if you practise what you preach...

15 posted on 06/26/2008 8:00:38 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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Britain is rather ahead of the U.S. on all this technologically enhanced reproduction...for instance, you notice that they limit the number of times a man can donate sperm, to limit the possible number of offspring out there who might inadvertantly meet and marry....

I'm not sure that an offspring necessarily needs to meet the donor, but in this age of genetic screening, and when we are finding out more and more diseases have a genetic propensity, I think it might be a good thing for people to have access to at least their genetic history.

16 posted on 06/26/2008 8:01:52 AM PDT by Amelia
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To: Balding_Eagle; gracesdad

Two Answers. (one troll, one not troll I’ll let you figure it out).

1) Insulin doesn’t require the slaughtering of innocent human babies. IVF is one step above stem-cell research.

2) God is perfect, everything God does is perfect, God created every human being, for us to admit some human beings aren’t perfect means that God screwed up. I’m not going to tell God He screwed up - are you?


17 posted on 06/26/2008 8:06:15 AM PDT by Philly Nomad
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To: gracesdad

People whose bodies don’t produce insulin should not get insulin? People whose bodies cannot fight off infection should not get antibiotics? People whose bone marrow cannot produce cells should not get marrow transpants?

This poster must have a perfect body and only be willing to live on a planet with others the same.


18 posted on 06/26/2008 8:07:25 AM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: Bushwacker777

It doesn’t help any either that the courts have ruled that the sperm donor can be sued for child support.


19 posted on 06/26/2008 8:09:52 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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To: Balding_Eagle

As a parent of two type 1’s I’m loving your sarcasm.


20 posted on 06/26/2008 8:10:37 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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