To: Red Badger
This lady doesn't understand the meaning of "anonymous" or the point of sperm donorship. If the donors wanted to be fathers, they'd be fathers, not sperm donors. Also, what's with this?
Contracts or not, many donor-conceived children and their families are finding each other. Wendy Kramer runs the Donor Sibling Registry, a group that connects donor-conceived children and their families. Her own donor-conceived son has found 18 half-siblings, most of them through DNA test matches.
Sperm donors and their families may be genetic relatives of the children but are not the children's families by any reasonable definition of the term.
I think maybe sperm recipients and donors need to take a hard look at the point of all this. It's one thing if it is being used by a couple with an impotent husband (though one might wish they would consider adopting one of the hundreds of thousands of kids in foster care in this country). But deliberately conceiving children without a father is an abuse of medical science and of the children themselves, and she should be prepared to accept the consequences.
But, of course, we are not allowed to expect women to accept the consequences of their reproductive choices.
To: The Pack Knight
The Pack Knight:" But deliberately conceiving children without a father is an abuse of medical science
and of the children themselves, and she should be prepared to accept the consequences."
So, if she is interested in finding what medical conditions exist with the father, she might be able through the donor bank.
However, I feel that she is looking for "entitlements", which according to Family court is 27% of gross, before taxes.
To: The Pack Knight
"But deliberately conceiving children without a father is an abuse of medical science and of the children themselves, and she should be prepared to accept the consequences." Thank you. It bears repeating.
121 posted on
02/01/2019 9:44:13 AM PST by
Mrs. Don-o
(Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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