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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Sure, and usually what He's saying is seek medical intervention or adopt.
Taking your first statement at face value, if you take antibiotics you may, in fact, be saying just that.
I am wondering if loss of anonymity is not just part of the issue- the other concern being the use of your genetic material by any freak who wants to create a baby?
Conservatives like to RAISE their offspring.
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I think what God is saying is adopt or find something else to do with your life. Or maybe he is saying “You should have listened to medical advice and not waited so long”.
The whole sperm bank/IVF thing is rather creepy in a society obsessed with free sex and no responsibilities.
“It doesn’t help any either that the courts have ruled that the sperm donor can be sued for child support.”
Not if it is done through a clinic! Laws in the USA and Europe protect the donor — also protect the child since, if the kid becomes a rich singer at 16 a donor can’t come along and claim anything from him or her.
Only at home “turkey baster babies” situations have resulted in lawsuits against sperm donors. Doesn’t happen if through a clinic — just repeating that.
“Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner of the silly thread of the day”
Please stay FAR away from any donation centers.
But seriously, technology is going to make this a big issue in the future. Also, it’s far from being “silly” if you are an infertile couple that requires an egg or sperm to form a real family.
It might also be noted that some parents are afraid of passing a genetic defect they have onto their offspring. In such cases (rather than remain childless) donors of egg and sperm are screened to make sure they aren’t carrying any major genetic problems.
Ironically, this might mean that lesbian mothers may be having some of the healthiest and smartest kids nowadays. Wow, talk about irony.
Then I wonder what sort of legal arrangement Mellissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher made with David Crosby when they borrowed his spooge for their (presumably musically-talented) child.
Oh, God gave them children naturally, if you know what I mean...
No I don’t know what you mean.
Mary had never been with a man. Sarah was 90 and no longer making eggs.
Have you considered that you may have stepped over the line today?
When did FR become the sanctuary for the politically correct?
“When did FR become the sanctuary for the politically correct?”
So nobody can call you on something blatently silly?
Let’s expand your thoughts.
No adoption, that would be borrowing somebodies sperm, egg and womb. Obviously much worse than a sperm bank.
No treatment for disease, admitting imperfection would somehow reflect on God? All heretics caught with a prescription will be burned.
There is a difference between “Political Correctness” and common courtesy.
If your sister married a man who had cancer as a child would you tell her God thought she should never have children. Would you say that they must be bad people because God was punishing them? Would you tell them that because he had cancer, he wasn’t good enough to bring up a child?
Cancer doesn’t make one sterile.
And adoption is OK because Joseph was a step-dad.
LOL - so if your appendix is about to burst you think God is telling you something?
Cancer makes you effectively sterile if not treated, read dead. Cancer treatment can most certainly make you sterile either directly such as with orchiectomy after testicular cancer or indirectly from radiation or chemo, especially the blood cancers, lymphoma and leukemia.
You can be a step-dad without adopting.
I’ve looked up some of your previous posts. You are smarter than the average poster. I would love debating you but admit it, you were trying to be funny, then in a rather lame fashion tried to justify it.
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