November 21, 2009
Published: 23 Jul 09 13:06 CET
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A shortage of healthy sperm and a spike in demand from lesbian couples has caused a backlog of artificial insemination applications at Swedish fertility clinics.
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Okey borrow sperms of any man but when child will come will you borrow the father love and feelings as well.....
Child needs care,love,feelings from boht mother and father....i agree sometime they divorced but borrowing sperm and giving birth is not at all freedom....
The mother is not giving the right to the child and Goverment should think this thing.....
Absolutely wrong....enjoy yourself but dont snatch the love of father from your child....
Rules in Swden say that a man can only impregnate 6 women and those women can have two children each through the fertility treatment. A man could theoretically create 12 children by becomming a donor.
Darwin would approve I think.
God these people.
I await the first law suit with baited breath, and to see how the judges will solve the issue. They should find a few t*ssers at the bottom of Drottninggatan to help them out
Children raised by gay couples are no more or less screwed up than those of heterosexual couples.
I wish these couples well.
Decadent !!!
As Rome.
Before the Fall.
These so-called "civilization" is finally at an end.
So does that mean that judgemental offspring must have had judgemental parents too?
I don't like agree with all of the posts on here, but you sound very hypocritical
Also, as for the quality thing, one wonders if all the drinking that Swedish males do has had a negative impact on the quality of their sperm.
Umm, why didn't they do that five years earlier? Maybe they're just trying to save money on fertility treatment...
And stop blaming this on the ending of donor anonymity. The numbers of sperm donors in the UK went *up* after the ending of anonymity. Donor anonymity is wrong anyway. It's not about what the donors want, what the parents want, or what the doctors want, it's about what the donor-conceived people want.
On the serious note, however i have to say i have no problem whatsoever for lesbian couples having kids from artificial insemination. It's their choice and of course it comes with responsibilities and own risks, like for example a kid being raised without a father, not knowing his/her father and maybe being bullied for not having the father on school events or other stuff. So, care has to be taken for these choices.
there's enough people in the world and we don't need more
there plenty of orphans waiting to be loved
Any man that gives away his sperm is not a man."
Huh???
What do you call one night stands then?
I know mime are, aren't yours!
What is he then?
Does he feel like a woman?
Could one make him a man by standing by him?
So do you charge for it?
Is that by volume or weight?
Do you grade it in advance?
How does one order?
Do you deliver?
Are you in the Stockholm area?
Can I get fries with that?
Do you accept cards? Euro?
Is there an ISO standard for it?
What about returning faulty goods - are we talking Michael Phelps or doggy paddle in the shallow end with armbands?
If I could I would.
I worry about how many people will be sleeping with their half brothers and sisters in about 16 years. This is very unsettling. It happened in the USA in many places when good samples were hard to get and the doctors made to many kids from too small of a gene pool or sperm supply.
children are forever and it is not easy.
I wonder if just a few of those Lesbian families could just include male friends or relations in their making of a family how much better their child to be would enjoy its family life.
'Priscilla Queen' of the desert had a nice twist on that theme.
I would have much rather been brought up in a homosexual home than be brought up in that orphanage. Some times I did miss my Daddy, yes. But I got enough from other adults around me to "fill" in that space.
I think people should butt out of others lives and pay attention to their own backyards.
IW
First, Grantike, I am a heterosexual male. Yes, I know that two women cannot reproduce without a male. However, I would point oout that there are a lot of couples who go in for sperm when the husband (male) is either sterile or has bad genes. Also, I have to say that at least these women are following the Biblical injunction to multiply and replenish the earth more than a lot of heterosexual women who are too selfish to have babies.
And one thing I will say in defense of these lesbian couples is that I am sure their fathers (the children's grandfathers) will be there for them. Now that's a thought, isn't it? Not only is a donor making it possible for children to be brought into the world, as well as give a woman the chance to be a mother, but is also giving her and her partner's parents a child to love as a grandchild (or hopefully grandchildren).
Men need to grow up sooner really.
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