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With college tuition and fees up more than 440% over the past 25 years, according to the Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, it's not surprising that students are trying to make a buck any way they can. But jobs are harder to come by in the economic downturn, and that has had a peculiar side effect: In the U.S., more young men are turning to sperm donation as a part-time job. It's the reverse of trends in the U.K. and Australia, which are seeing sperm shortages, largely as a result of laws that give children the right to...

British people may soon be able to board ships anchored off the coast to obtain fertility treatment forbidden in the UK, such as anonymous donor sperm. Some fear the removal of anonymity from sperm donors in April will exacerbate the shortage of donors, affecting infertile couples. Ole Schou from the international sperm bank company Cryos, based in Denmark, is consultant to the ship scheme. Ships would be governed by the laws of the country whose flag they flew. If you have different regulations on treatments then you will have trading across borders Mr Ole Schou from Cryos He envisages that...

The UK government's plan to make fertility treatment increasingly available to single women and lesbian couples has hit a slight snag - there are not enough sperm donors coming forward and coming to provide 50 per cent of the raw materials. The problem stems partly from changes in the law in April which mean that sperm donors are no longer guaranteed anonymity. Accordingly, any child produced from donor sperm can ask for his biological dad's details when he or she turns 18. Sheffield fertility clinic owner Professor Bill Ledger told the Guardian: "We are seeing longer and longer waiting lists...

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...

To the dismay of gay-rights activists, the Food and Drug Administration (search) is about to implement new rules recommending that any man who has engaged in homosexual sex in the previous five years be barred from serving as an anonymous sperm donor...

If you think that comparing Evangelical Christians to the Taliban sounds extreme, you might just be a normal American. But if you think that the comparison is valid, you might just be a supporter of North Carolina Senator Julia Boseman. In fact, Boseman’s supporters have just launched a new website making that very comparison. Even worse, they go on to say the following of both Republicans and Christian Fundamentalists: “Hate is their currency. Ignorance is their sacrament. Racism is their communion.” Julia Boseman’s attacks on Evangelical Christians began months ago in one of the most disgraceful episodes of political passive...

KOLKATA: A childless couple's quest for a baby has ended in the hopeful mother contracting HIV. In what is being termed by doctors as Asia's first case of HIV from artificial insemination, a woman fertilised with sperm from an unknown donor has contracted the dreaded virus. The woman discovered she was carrying the virus when she underwent a medical examination in August 2002 as directed by an NGO from which she wanted to adopt the child. The woman and her husband approached the adoption agency after six attempts at artificial insemination since 1997 failed. The case has stunned doctors of...

DAVAO CITY — Over 300 Muslim religious leaders from all over the country announced on Wednesday the official Islamic canonical decision (fatwah) on reproductive health and family planning. The new fatwah allows the use of both natural and artificial contraceptive methods, except for tubal ligation and vasectomy. "The assembly finds reproductive health and family planning program, as practiced under valid reasons and recognized ancestries, are in accordance with the teachings of Islam," the fatwah stated. However, it stressed that family planning for the Muslim community in the Philippines should be anchored on the principles of non-coercion, responsible parenthood, and informed...

Italy bans donor sperm and eggs Italy's Senate has overwhelmingly approved a law which bans the use of donor sperm, eggs or surrogate mothers. It also limits the right to artificial fertilisation to "heterosexual couples in stable relationships", excluding gay couples and single women. The bill, one of the most restrictive in Europe, has drawn support and criticism from across the party lines. BBC Rome correspondent Frances Kennedy says that the bill has pitted Catholics against liberals and men against women. The legislation, passed in the Senate by 169 votes to 90 on Thursday, will now be sent back to...

CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- An Australian fertility clinic is advertising for Canadian sperm donors at the University of Calgary, Alberta ,in exchange for a trip down under. The New South Wales clinic reportedly can't find enough donors in Australia, so is offering a two-week, all-expense paid trip to Australia for those that pass pre-screening blood tests. The Albury Reproductive Medicine Clinic blames the shortage on a recent Australian law compelling donors to disclose their names. Previously, they could remain anonymous. Calgary was chosen because an employee grew up in the city, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said. Ruth Keat,...

lesbian who conceived a baby after buying sperm on the Internet has given birth to a boy, it was reported today. Jaime Saphier, 26, from Merseyside, gave birth to her first child by emergency Caesarean section at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Her mother Susan Saphier told the Liverpool Daily Post: "Jaime went in to hospital on Monday, but the baby failed to arrive and the doctors were so concerned they decided to perform an emergency Caesarean. "Jaime said to me 'I can't believe I'm a mum'. I told her I loved her and felt proud she was a mother. "The...

Woman injected with wrong sperm This is about as bizarre as it gets. It began a year and a half-ago, and the victim says she still has trouble believing it really happened to her. Kelly Chambliss went to a Wilmington clinic to get pregnant. She says she ended up with the wrong sperm. That's when her real-life nightmare began. Chambliss is 36-years-old, and has a same sex partner. She went to the Coastal Area Health Education Center for artificial insemination. The sperm she expected was from a bank in California. Instead, her lawsuit claims she was injected with two-day-old...

Sperm donor clinic for lesbians Website entrepreneur to open centre for single and gay women as calls grow for changes to fertility act A controversial fertility clinic, which will focus on helping lesbian couples and single women to become pregnant using donated sperm, is to set up in Britain. In a direct challenge to moral conservatives and fertility regulators, the businessman behind two websites offering sperm and human eggs is taking over an existing clinic in Bristol, which will be renamed the Man Not Included New Life Centre. John Gonzalez will target his services at lesbians and single women despite...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.BEIJING - China's first "smart sperm" bank, which accepts only highly educated donors, says it has 400 women on a waiting list for fertilization. Now it needs donors. Four years after it was set up, the center says it has fewer than 20. "The biggest problem we are facing is the lack of suitable donors," its director, Huang Ping, told the official Xinhua News Agency. The creation of the center in the southwestern city of Chengdu set off a debate in the Chinese press over its focus on the sperm of highly...

Health Canada's mandatory new inspection program has detected widespread problems in sperm banks, including a failure to meet government testing requirements, and donor semen that was erroneously released from quarantine. Documents obtained under the Access to Information Act also found that one Toronto clinic allowed an overage donor -- likely exposed to Hepatitis B -- to provide semen to a same-sex couple. The Whitehorse Medical Clinic flunked its June 12 inspection and is the only clinic suspended from using its semen supply. With one exception, inspectors found the clinic kept no records detailing which semen was used in patients. "They...

<p>NEW YORK — Imagine never having met your father. He wasn't even present at your conception and doesn't know you exist.</p> <p>Now imagine there are others who share this experience and might even share your DNA. One of these people could live down the block from you or pass you on the street. Would you consider them family?</p>

The birth of the first internet spermbank baby was announced yesterday - a healthy boy whose arrival exposes a hole in the regulations that govern fertility treatment. The 10lb 2oz boy was the result of a purchase of sperm by a couple in the south-east of England from a British-based website which claims to be the only one of its kind. ManNotIncluded.com is able to bypass all the rules and the scrutiny that fertility clinics have to endure because it does not offer treatment - it acts only as an introduction agency, to bring together men willing to sell their...

Troops rush to bank sperm before heading to Persian Gulf 01/31/2003 By CHRISTINA ALMEIDA / The Associated PressLOS ANGELES — Fearful of powerful vaccines and exposure to biological weapons, American soldiers are taking an unusual precaution before heading to the Persian Gulf.They're freezing their sperm to protect their fertility.Sperm banks nationwide have reported an increase in the number of military clients as deployment orders rapidly increase."It doesn't protect their life. It doesn't protect them from illness. But at least ... a man can beget a legal heir," said Dr. Cappy Rothman, co-director of California Cryobank.In January, 28 soldiers had...

'Who's your daddy?'' That's a phrase that's hip among the young of today. But for hundreds of thousands of people it's a question they want to be able to answer. And I'm not referring to adopted children. I'm talking about children born through artificial insemination. On campuses throughout the United States, collegians are earning money by making deposits at sperm banks. And the sperm banks make themselves well-known on campuses. I know several young college men who have made deposits to them. Students will do all sorts of things to earn money while in school. They'll donate blood. They'll sign...

The US is a world leader in sperm exports primarily because sperm banks in the U.S. are run on a for-profit basis. As a result, US sperm is reckoned to be of high quality (we always knew this didn't we?) particulary because the US version comes with a background on the vitals of the donor. Denmark also exports a lot of sperm because of high standards and demand for that blond, blue-eyed look. Exports to Canada have increased in recent years because of a scandal involving poorly screened Canadian sperm. Canadians also import a lot of US eggs. The Canadian...