Posted on 08/13/2005 8:08:24 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Websites offer donor eggs and sperm to women who want children. Proposals to crack down on internet sites that trade in human sperm and eggs are set to be unveiled this week by the government. The plans are part of a consultation on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.
...The Department of Health has said there are a number of concerns regarding how internet sites currently operate, including the fact that internet sperm donors do not benefit from the same legal protection as that given to donors at regulated clinics.
This means website donors are regarded as the legal parent, unlike those who donate via clinics.
...British Fertility Society secretary Dr Allan Pacey welcomed the review.
There are real health dangers to patients treated with, and any children born from, fresh sperm obtained in this way.
He said: "In licensed clinics, sperm donors undergo a raft of tests to minimise the risk of passing on genetic diseases to any children conceived and to make sure their samples are clear of infections such as chlamydia and HIV.
"Fresh sperm, obtained from these unregulated sources, simply cannot be tested and quarantined in the same way.
"This means there are real health dangers to patients treated with, and any children born from, fresh sperm obtained in this way."
...But John Gonzalez, chief executive of the "Man Not Included" website, said he had been suggesting there should be a system for regulating sites since his had been established three years ago...
Mr Gonzalez said his site carried out stringent testing of donors, and added: "The majority of babies conceived every day are conceived using fresh sperm."
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To deliberately bring a child into existence as a result of a commercial transaction via an anonymous sperm vendor: this is veterinary "medicine". It is treating a child like an animal. A cute animal, yes; a desired pet, yes; a good breed, no doubt; but an animal.
late nite ping
What kind of a person would buy sperm from a website? Seriously--what kind of a noid do you have to be to think this is a good idea?
Gag.... waiting for the nausea to subside...gack
Ebaybies.com
This is for fags, right???
Puke...
Artificial insemination is adultery or pre-marital sex, as the case may be.
I hope my mail order clone gets here before the laws take effect.
OUCH! (He said, crossing his legs.)
Here's the "Man Not Included" web site (probably a subsidiary of "Turkey Basters 'R Us"...):
http://www.mannotincluded.com/
Rather have it the ole fashion way ;o)
Sorry, but no child coming into this world is animal. No matter who that child was created, he or she is still a person made in the image of God. A person can turn into something less than an animal as we have seen too often in history, but an innocent child didn't ask to be born. For you to refer to him or her as an animal says more about yourself instead of that child.
Uhmmm i don't know, i stil think a woman needs to be involved somewhere...
You can try a search on Sploogle.com
A normal but infertile woman would not buy sperm over the internet. So I made a guess at a group of freaks who may have created a market for the, ahem, product.
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