"U.K. laws denying anonymity to sperm donors seem to have resulted in a "major sperm shortage," according to the British Fertility Society (BFS). Now some clinics are importing sperm from the U.S. and Denmark to keep up with demand.
The right to anonymity was stripped from British sperm donors in 2005. At the time, only about one tenth of donated sperm samples at U.K. clinics came from abroad. Now, figures from the country's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority show that foreign sperm makes up a quarter of all samples. "...
At the risk of moving this post to the Ring, no women have approached me with any paternity suits to date. The window for that kind of legal action has opened and closed (I hope, fingers crossed...). In the meanwhile I might check out the market for "my seed," it's money I didn't have coming in before now! The legal implications are not entirely clear either...
God bless the widows of the Fleet and the exploits that they'll never expose to the light of day (we hope...). Ditto shipmates, wrap your stump before you bump or suffer the consequences and be prepared for that awkward e-mail/phone call/snail mail from your last "best girl."
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Sperm donors might lose their privacy rights in the USA too. I saw the case of a Lesbian couple that split up. They had promised the donor that he wasn't responsible financially for the child. The woman who got custody of the child, went on welfare and the state sued the donor to pay up
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
