Posted on 08/08/2006 11:54:32 AM PDT by marthemaria
Oslo's Sperm Bank seeks to double its number of donors but is not interested in contributions from homosexuals. A legislative change in January 2005 gave the child of a sperm donation the right to know the identity of the donor when reaching age 18. The sperm bank at Rikshospitalet, Oslo has been trying various recruitment drives to make up for the resulting reluctance but the Bank is far from its goal of finding 30-40 new donors every year, newspaper Dagsavisen reports.
Nevertheless, the Bank is unwilling to accept homosexual donors, despite the regulations not mentioning the exclusion of this group.
Laboratory chief Peter Fedorcsak is opposed to homosexual donors, and questions their psychological suitability for being donors.
"The main motivation for a donor must be a desire to help others, not, for example, donating sperm in order to spread one's own genes," Fedorcsak told Dagsavisen.
Fedorcsak said that both he and others at the Sperm Bank increasingly often turn down interested donors because the potential donors turn out to be most interested in getting children.
"This is one of the challenges we have now that donors are no longer anonymous," Fedorcsak said. Potential donors are asked about their sexual proclivity during an interview. "This is a very complicated question. It is not clear that we should just say yes to homosexuals," Fedorcsak said.
Norway's other national sperm bank in Haugesund sees no problem with accepting homosexual donors.
"We want a cross-section of maleness in Norway. Some men are homosexual, so that would be just fine," said operations manager Eva Bakke at the Haugesund Sperm Bank.
Jon Reidar Øyan, head of the Norwegian National Association of Lesbian and Gay Liberation (LLH), said the Rikshospitalet was playing judge and that homosexuals could well be better suited psychologically as donors.
"As homosexuals today we live with the donor problem. Some homosexuals have chosen to help lesbian friends and acquaintances, yes, there is a tradition for identified donors in homosexual circles," Øyan said.
Aftenposten English Web Desk
this is a no brainer. EVeryone knows that gay sperm swim to other gay sperm and not to the egg.
To paraphrase Ann Coulter, if homosexuality is hereditary, and if natural selection is true, the homosexual trait would have been eliminated from the gene pool millenia ago.
Took me a second to realize the reasoning there. It sounds like homosexual men are donating sperm so they can lay claim to the child later.
That's messed up.
mr Øyan has called this ethnic clensing in and norwegian newspaper today. crazy
No 'mo donors. 'Mo batter won't be used for baking buns in the oven.
Men have the chromosomes pairing of XY and women have the pairing of XX.
- Both the egg and the spermatozoa have 23 chromosomes.
- The egg is always the carrier of the X chromosome
- The spermatozoa can carry either an X or a Y chromosome.
So homosexual spermatozoa swim around ignoring the egg all day while searching out in other spermatozoa to meet up behind the Fallopian tubes for a "George Michael" encounter?
I would be more than happy to donate, but I insist on eliminating the middle man and "delivering" the goods straight to the customer!
That's what's called "customer service".
This isn't fair. Where are homosexual men without partners to go to get sperm? OK I just grossed myself out.
Poop stained sperm stink!!!
When a couple uses sperm from a donor, does it say if the donor is gay?
Cheers!
That's just what she was hoping to hear!
:')
All beause they don't want to profile and admit that AIDs or other STDs could be in the donation.
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