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		<title>By: My parents donor is my father</title>
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		<dc:creator>My parents donor is my father</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See Dr. Joanna Rose&#039;s thesis, the “donor conceived” woman who’s legal efforts helped to end anonymity in the UK:
“Rose, Joanna (2009) A critical analysis of sperm donation practices : the personal and social effects of disrupting the unity of biological and social relatedness for the offspring. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.”
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/32012/

Katrina Clark&#039;s article in the Washington Post:
&quot;My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor&quot;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121501820.html

&quot;Anonymous Father&#039;s Day&quot;
www.anonymousfathersday.com/

&quot;Eggsploitation&quot;
www.eggsploitation.com/

&quot;Tangled Webs International&quot;
http://tangledwebsorg.wordpress.com/about/

&quot;Tangled Webs UK&quot;
http://www.tangledwebs.org.uk/tw/

&quot;Confessions of a CryoKid&quot; blog (which links to many other blogs and articles/papers on this subject)
http://cryokidconfessions.blogspot.com/]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See Dr. Joanna Rose&#8217;s thesis, the “donor conceived” woman who’s legal efforts helped to end anonymity in the UK:<br />
“Rose, Joanna (2009) A critical analysis of sperm donation practices : the personal and social effects of disrupting the unity of biological and social relatedness for the offspring. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.”<br />
<a href="http://eprints.qut.edu.au/32012/" rel="nofollow">http://eprints.qut.edu.au/32012/</a></p>
<p>Katrina Clark&#8217;s article in the Washington Post:<br />
&#8220;My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121501820.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121501820.html</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Anonymous Father&#8217;s Day&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.anonymousfathersday.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.anonymousfathersday.com/</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Eggsploitation&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.eggsploitation.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eggsploitation.com/</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Tangled Webs International&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://tangledwebsorg.wordpress.com/about/" rel="nofollow">http://tangledwebsorg.wordpress.com/about/</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Tangled Webs UK&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.tangledwebs.org.uk/tw/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tangledwebs.org.uk/tw/</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Confessions of a CryoKid&#8221; blog (which links to many other blogs and articles/papers on this subject)<br />
<a href="http://cryokidconfessions.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://cryokidconfessions.blogspot.com/</a></p>
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		<title>By: marilynn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently commented on the American Society of Reproductive Medicine&#039;s blog - the head of that organization has a post about how there is no need to limit the number of offspring per donor. He&#039;s wrong.

The American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s guidelines suggest a limit of 25 children per donor per population of 800,000 and that ratio reduces to a limit of 1 child per donor per population of 32,000. That translates to:
•428 offspring/donor within Metro London’s population of 13,709,000
•1,939 offspring/donor within the UK’s population of 62,041,708
•22,291 offspring/donor within Europe’s population of 711,064,145 
•213,766 offspring/donor within the Earth’s population of 6,840,507,003

Do the &quot;1 child per population of 32,000&quot; formula to find out how many offspring the ASRM donor limits say a donor in your town should have then realize there are no borders.  Does the clinic serve the people from the town possibly the county does it ship statewide or world wide?  Take a look at the over 200,000 offspring they are allowed to have world wide. There are no limits.  There are no scruples among the people profiting from the sale of human beings.  

Think they&#039;re not selling human beings?  Try going through the application process to become a donor and then at after you have been selected when they give you the form where you agree not only to give up your sperm but the right to choose whom you reproduce with and most importantly promise not to seek contact with or custody of your offspring - you must agree not to take care of your child or they won&#039;t pay you for your sperm.  They only want the sperm of men willing to abandon their offspring.  If a person says &quot;they don&#039;t donate their children, they donate their sperm&quot; a good response is that they have to do both one, after the other in order to get paid.  Nobody wants his sperm if they don&#039;t get to keep his baby and make him go away.

Should children only be important to men who love their children&#039;s mothers?  If they don&#039;t care about the mother must that mean they don&#039;t have to care about the child?  Why would a donor care about the children he raises more than the ones he does not?  Its noble to want to help women have children when they have no other alternatives for getting pregnant.  Your offspring is a helluva thing to trust a stranger with.  I wonder if he&#039;d give a stranger the keys to his car if they wanted to know what driving was like.  

Donors are only donors until their offspring are born.  Once they are born they are fathers like any other man and its what they do is abandon their responsibilities and hope that someone on the other end is there to pick up their slack and that they are the kind of people he&#039;d want caring for his kids.  Everyone should be responsible for the offspring they create there should be no special class of people exempt from that rule.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently commented on the American Society of Reproductive Medicine&#8217;s blog &#8211; the head of that organization has a post about how there is no need to limit the number of offspring per donor. He&#8217;s wrong.</p>
<p>The American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s guidelines suggest a limit of 25 children per donor per population of 800,000 and that ratio reduces to a limit of 1 child per donor per population of 32,000. That translates to:<br />
•428 offspring/donor within Metro London’s population of 13,709,000<br />
•1,939 offspring/donor within the UK’s population of 62,041,708<br />
•22,291 offspring/donor within Europe’s population of 711,064,145<br />
•213,766 offspring/donor within the Earth’s population of 6,840,507,003</p>
<p>Do the &#8220;1 child per population of 32,000&#8243; formula to find out how many offspring the ASRM donor limits say a donor in your town should have then realize there are no borders.  Does the clinic serve the people from the town possibly the county does it ship statewide or world wide?  Take a look at the over 200,000 offspring they are allowed to have world wide. There are no limits.  There are no scruples among the people profiting from the sale of human beings.  </p>
<p>Think they&#8217;re not selling human beings?  Try going through the application process to become a donor and then at after you have been selected when they give you the form where you agree not only to give up your sperm but the right to choose whom you reproduce with and most importantly promise not to seek contact with or custody of your offspring &#8211; you must agree not to take care of your child or they won&#8217;t pay you for your sperm.  They only want the sperm of men willing to abandon their offspring.  If a person says &#8220;they don&#8217;t donate their children, they donate their sperm&#8221; a good response is that they have to do both one, after the other in order to get paid.  Nobody wants his sperm if they don&#8217;t get to keep his baby and make him go away.</p>
<p>Should children only be important to men who love their children&#8217;s mothers?  If they don&#8217;t care about the mother must that mean they don&#8217;t have to care about the child?  Why would a donor care about the children he raises more than the ones he does not?  Its noble to want to help women have children when they have no other alternatives for getting pregnant.  Your offspring is a helluva thing to trust a stranger with.  I wonder if he&#8217;d give a stranger the keys to his car if they wanted to know what driving was like.  </p>
<p>Donors are only donors until their offspring are born.  Once they are born they are fathers like any other man and its what they do is abandon their responsibilities and hope that someone on the other end is there to pick up their slack and that they are the kind of people he&#8217;d want caring for his kids.  Everyone should be responsible for the offspring they create there should be no special class of people exempt from that rule.</p>
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