Posted on 04/27/2025 1:13:24 AM PDT by Morgana
Over a year ago, the Netherlands reported numerous sperm mega-donors within the country, leading to fears of accidental incest. The number of these mega-donors seems to keep growing, with the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (NVOG) now admitting at least 85 men have fathered 25 or more children.
The most infamous Dutch sperm mega-donor is Jonathan Meijer, who is believed to have over 1,000 children and was the subject of a Netflix documentary last year. Meijer had been ordered to stop donating sperm, though he appeared not to have complied, just moving his sperm donation business outside of the Netherlands.
A law banning donors from fathering more than 25 children has been in place in the Netherlands since 1992, but it seems to have been ignored by the fertility industry. The limit was lowered again, to 12, in 2018, but it made no difference. This was confirmed after a code system analyzing sperm donations was put into place this month. Fertility clinics have been lax about regulations meant to protect women and children in the Netherlands. Clinics were found to have been knowingly using sperm from the same donor more than 25 times, to have exchanged sperm without knowledge of the donors or filing the required paperwork, and to have allowed the same donors to donate sperm at multiple clinics.
“The number of so-called ‘mass donors’ should be zero,” gynecologist Marieke Schoonenberg told the TV show Nieuwsuur. “On behalf of the whole profession, we wish to apologise. We didn’t do things as they should have been done.”
She continued, “As a result, we now know, for the first time, the exact number of children per donor.” Most of the donors fathered between 25 and 50 children; this includes at least 10 fertility doctors, who illegally used their own sperm to father over 80 children.
Ties van der Meer, of Stichting Donorkind, an association dedicated to fighting for the rights of donor children, called the findings a “medical calamity,” pointing out that at least 3,000 people in the Netherlands have 25 or more siblings they don’t know about.
“The harm done to people’s trust in the medical system, and in the governments that allowed all this to happen, is just the beginning,” van der Meer said. “Once they start dating someone, they’re going to have to do DNA tests to make sure they’re not going out with a close relation.”
23andMe Help Desk, please pick up a white courtesy phone.
Hummel figurines come from Germany, not The Netherlands.
I remember, years ago, reading of a MORMON fertility doctor arrested for too many of the children born at his clinic looking too much like him.
Bill Mauldin! It was before my time, but I had a paperback with a bunch of his cartoons from WW2. He was a treasure. My Dad was a WW2 Vet, so he appreciated them.
S. Gross had a cartoon about the night deposit at a sperm bank. Too much trouble to find and post it, but you could probably track it down.
really? “just smart enough”? so Mr. lurker air, what YOUR IQ, how rich are you and tell us about your companies that are in the cutting edge of technologies that YOU have mastered or are about to. you can insult other people far more intelligent than you are but you invite pushback when you do. but have a nice day.
You are so clueless.
Sorry.
Nothin' to do with unfettered immigration from places where consanguinous marriages are the norm, though.
LOL!
Soon the Netherlands will have to require DNA tests before marriage.
The vast majority of the people having kids now in the Netherlands are their ‘new arrivals’ (and their descendants) and they start having their kids around age 20, so they don’t need sperm donor services. But for the handful of 45 year old native women who have finally gotten around to having a trophy child...yeah, that’s a problem.
Back in the 1990 in New Brunswick Canada a serial killer (who oddly enough killed people he knew from his community instead of strangers) named Allen Leger was at large following a prison escape. He was in prison for killing an elderly store owner and raping his wife. While at large he killed 4 different people he knew including a priest.
When he was brought to court the prosecution introduced DNA evidence which was pretty new stuff at that time. His defense lawyers tried to dismiss it, due to the fact that he was supposedly related to everybody in his community. In the end the evidence was submitted and used against him resulting in his conviction. Even though that defense didn’t work, it was certainly worth a try.
Leger is a very common name in New Brunswick and throughout the Maritime provinces.
“Hummel figurines come from Germany, not The Netherlands.”
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The Hummel.
https://youtu.be/rOCX_zA1Ies?list=RDrOCX_zA1Ies&t=300
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Very interesting.
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