Showing posts with label sperm donation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sperm donation. Show all posts
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Prolific sperm donation and incest risk in the Netherlands

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 The Guardian has the story: ‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children .  Discovery that clinics have b...
Friday, May 17, 2024

Sperm donation from Denmark to the UK and elsewhere

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  The Daily Mail has the story: 'They invaded us once by boat and now they're doing it with sperm!' Why hundreds of British wome...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

The EU considers tightening bans on compensating donors of Substances of Human Origin (SoHO)

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 Peter Jaworski considers an  EU proposal this month to harmonize across the EU bans on paying donors for Substances of Human Origin (SoHO)....
Saturday, October 29, 2022

The end of anonymous sperm donation...

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 In  Colorado, a new law ending anonymous sperm donation seeks to catch up with the technological developments involving genetic sequencing ...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

Deceased donor sperm recovery and conception

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I guess it's a case of deceased donor transplantation of sorts. Above the Law has the story: Posthumous Conception: It Happens More Ofte...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Another pandemic shortage: donor sperm

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  Sperm from conventional sperm banks is now in short supply. But there are "known donor" peer to peer websites and Facebook group...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Should deceased donors be allowed to donate sperm?

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Deceased donor sperm donation is the subject of an article earlier this year, in light of the shortage of donated sperm in the UK: Hodson...
Monday, October 7, 2019

Different misconduct in sperm donation

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One reason it is rewarding to study unregulated markets is that it gives you some idea of why some regulation might be desirable.  The grow...
Saturday, September 7, 2019

DNA tests are revealing medical misconduct in early sperm donation

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The NY Times has the story, summarizing many recently discovered cases in which fertility doctors used their own sperm in place of other sp...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

Sperm selection

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I've blogged before about selection of sperm donors , but here's a story from the NY Times about the selection of sperm itself: ...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Sperm donors used to be anonymous. Technology has made that obsolete

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Here's a representative story from the NY Times: Sperm Donors Can’t Stay Secret Anymore. Here’s What That Means.   By Susan Dominus ...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

In Britain, National Sperm Bank stops recruiting donors

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The Telegraph has the story: National Sperm Bank stops recruiting donors after just two years "The  National Sperm Bank  (NSB) was ...
Sunday, August 3, 2014

Danish sperm donors and British babies

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The Telegraph has the story: Invasion of the Viking babies-- With a growing demand for donor fathers, women are turning to Danish sperm ban...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

When does sperm donation equal paternity?

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There are lots of issues to be settled about transactions related to reproduction , such as surrogacy, and egg and sperm donation. Some of ...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Law and economics of repugnant markets

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Kimberly Krawiec at The Faculty Lounge, some time ago followed up on one of my posts with an interesting one of her own: Selecting for Sex...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Miscellaneous repugnant transactions

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Germany to ban paintball "The German government is planning to ban paintball and laser shooting games in reaction to the recent schoo...
Thursday, April 9, 2009

Market for eggs and sperm

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The Boston Globe reports Recession spurs egg and sperm donations Giving provides extra income . "Couples, and some single women, pay...