Posted on 09/24/2009 2:40:15 PM PDT by GOPGuide
Couples struggling to have a baby in the UK are turning to Danish sperm donors, after the removal of anonymity halved the number of British contributors.
The world's largest sperm bank, Cryos Denmark, has targeted IVF clinics in Britain where top quality sperm can be sold for as much as £1,000. The company has 50 non-anonymous donors whose sperm has been frozen and will be ready for shipping over the next few months.
A spokesman said Danish men would be ideal donors because they share genetic heritage due to three centuries of Viking raids and settlements along the east coast of Britain from the eighth to the eleventh century. 'We are almost the same genetic background and we all speak English. So it's easier and obvious to offer a service in the UK,' managing director, Ole Schou, said. 'It's obviously much harder to attract donors which are non-anonymous but we have now built up a bank of men whose sperm we can export,' he told the Evening Standard.
The number of British male donors has nearly halved from 417 in 2005, after children were allowed to contact their donor father when they reached the age of 18.
Cryos is able to import Danish sperm because it has spent more than two years ensuring its donors meet strict new guidelines from the Human fertilisation and embryology Authority.
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Sort of puts a new meaning to “a Danish with that coffee...”
I predict alot of really cute kids in the UK’s future.
>>The number of British male donors has nearly halved from 417 in 2005, after children were allowed to contact their donor father when they reached the age of 18.<<
Now that I got my quip out of the way, if you look at this, you see a perfect example of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
For the moment, the donor remains 100% anonymous in the US, but who knows what will happen when the latest generation start asking why they have an extra pinky or eye or whatever.
This is the steep part of the slippery slope of screwing with nature.
Would it be fair to consider this a type of Danegeld reparations...? /g
You bad.
;)
seeing some of those British women who can’t conceive might make you want to renege on that and start running.
Truly a series of shots fired for freedom! Those Danes still know how to stand up for their British cousins.
..aren’t Danes and Anglo-Saxons nearly the same ethnically?
Hard to believe how fast the UK is deteriorating. In more ways than I had thought. Maybe it is natures way of preventing liberals from multiplying. Hahahaha
“Couples struggling to have a baby in the UK are turning to Danish sperm donors...”
I thought that started with William in 1066??
Maybe Harald Hardråde would have been good for England afer all! He was defeated at Stamford Bridge.
After the men of England have been emasculated by their own government maybe some Danish blood will do them good!
They are utterly mad aren't they? That is the most predictable consequence you could possibly think of.
You beat me to it. I agree, except I can’t for the life of me think the powers that be couldnt figure out that was going to happen.
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