The Sperm Bank of California

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The Sperm Bank of California (TSBC) is one in 1982 by Barbara Raboy as a non-profit society founded sperm bank in Berkeley in California. In 1983 she patented a program in which sperm donors could voluntarily reveal their identity to children conceived with their sperm if they so wished when they reached the age of majority. This was the first program of its kind in the world. Even if the man chooses to remain anonymous at the time of sperm donation, the sperm bank can, with his consent, connect him to the conceived children as soon as they are 18 years old. According to a 2002 article, 1,100 children had been conceived from the bank's semen at the time, and bank officials said about four in five customers chose the option of disclosing the donor's identity to their adult descendants. Many of the bank's customers are lesbian or women who have chosen to become single mothers.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diane M. Tober: Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the Market in Altruism . In: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loic Wacquant (Ed.): Commodifying Bodies . Sage Publications, London / Thousand Oaks 2002, ISBN 0-7619-4034-0 , pp. 143 , doi : 10.4135 / 9781446215005.n8 (English, books.google.com ).
  2. ↑ Anneli Rufus: One Man Fathering 150 Children? Why Sperm Banks May Be Unethical. AlterNet.org, October 11, 2011 (English).
  3. ^ Joanna E. Scheib, Alice Ruby, Jean Benward: Who requests their sperm donor's identity? The first ten years of information releases to adults with open-identity donors . In: Fertility and Sterility . tape 107 , no. 2 , February 2017, p. 483–493 , doi : 10.1016 / j.fertnstert.2016.10.023 .
  4. ↑ Linda Villarosa: Once-Invisible Sperm Donors Get to Meet the Family (English) . In: The New York Times , May 21, 2002. Retrieved August 28, 2018. 
  5. ↑ Eliana Dockterman: 'Delivery Man': 9 Sperm Donation Questions You're Too Embarrassed to Ask In: Time . November 22, 2013 (English).
  6. ↑ Scott Harris: Families on the Cusp of an Uncharted Realm. In: Los Angeles Times . May 3, 2002 (English).
  7. ↑ Jaime Holguin: Sperm Donor Meets Offspring (English) . In: CBS News , June 3, 2003. Retrieved August 28, 2018. 
  8. ↑ Alessandra Rafferty: Donor-Conceived Children Demand Rights. In: Newsweek . February 25, 2011 (English).