3 sperm donors from same family in Quebec have sired 600 children
Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children by offering free sperm on the internet. A documentary by Noovo Info, a Quebec news outlet...
Inadvertent incest after IVF is real
Historic news flash in the chronicles of the Reproductive Revolution! A CNN investigation of the aftermath of “fertility fraud” – doctors impregnating their patients with their own...
Ukraine legalizes post-mortem sperm donation
Ukraine’s parliament has approved a law which permits the frozen sperm of soldiers to be used if they are killed in action. An earlier law...
British sperm is being exported overseas
Some women in the UK have been shocked to learn that their favourite donor’s sperm is being exported overseas. According to an article in BioNews,...
Antisemitism hits sperm donation
Will the rise in global antisemitism affect sperm donation? An Australian man was planning to be a sperm donor for a lesbian couple. However, they...
200 siblings and counting. And all very sick.
How would it feel to discover that your father is a sperm donor, that you have at least 200 half-siblings, and that all of them...
Fertility fraud may still be happening in US
One suspects that in the 1980s, wherever there was IVF, there was fertility fraud – doctors who secretly used their own sperm to inseminate patients....
Sperm donor administration in shambles in Dutch clinic
In a shocking revelation, the administration of the Leiden University Medical Centre’s (LUMC) sperm bank, which ceased operations in 2004, has been exposed as a...
Court grants Australian widow permission for posthumous sperm extraction
A 62-year-old widow, known only as Ms H, has been granted permission by the Western Australia Supreme Court to extract sperm from her deceased husband....
FDA approves at-home insemination kit
In another development in the commercialisation of assisted reproduction, an American company has received FDA approved for an artificial insemination kit. The product, called the...
Donor anonymity becomes a battleground in the US
Donor-conceived Americans who want the federal government to abolish donor anonymity are getting pushback from the LGBTQI+ lobby. On the one hand, the U.S. Donor...
Should there be a ‘dead donor rule’ for sperm donation?
Sperm donation creates a web of exceedingly complex relationships. The HeyReprotech Newsletter (a great Substack resource for news about assisted reproduction) recently profiled a married...