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	Donor Sperm & Information - Northeast Surrogate Agencies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Donor sperm is obtained from an accredited facility, where it has been frozen and stored cryogenically.
		Sperm is rigorously tested for its health, safety, and viability.
		Donor sperm is readily available and can be shipped to your location of choice.
	www.assistedfertility.com /donor/sperm.shtml (219 words)

	Sperm Bank Directory
		A donor sperm bank, is a sperm bank which collects and freezes the sperm of anonymous donors.
		A licensed sperm bank can provide a selection of sperm specimens that have been screened and tested and are known to be safe and free from disease.
		Sperm banks, by law, must be exceptionally thorough in screening out donors who have HIV, hepatitis, and sexually transmitted and genetic diseases.
	www.spermbankdirectory.com /sbpurchasesperm.htm (882 words)

	USNews.com: Health: Infertility: Donor sperm
		Donor sperm is used only after rigorous screening for genetic and infectious diseases, mandated by the Food and Drug Administration, and a six-month quarantine.
		Using a sperm donor is a straightforward procedure for prospective parents; you order the sperm, it's shipped, and the doctor performs the insemination.
		Sperm banks, or cryobanks, usually have a list of their donors that provides ethnic background, height, weight, and other basic information.
	health.usnews.com /usnews/health/sex/inf/inf.treat.donorsperm.htm (168 words)

	Egg vs Sperm Donation: Why are women and men treated differently?!
		And even though there is no difference in the thankfulness of a couple that has had the help of a sperm donor to create their family and one who has had the help of an egg donor, there are differences in the costs and legalities.
		All sperm are frozen for a quarantine period prior to being used.
		In the donor contract, the donor would have stated that her intention was for the recipients have all parental rights and she would have stated her intention to release any claims on the resulting child.
	www.surrogacy.com /agencies/articles/egg.html (1478 words)

	Are You My Sperm Donor? Few Clinics Will Say - Boston.com
		As the stigma of infertility fades, both sperm and egg donors and recipients are attacking the secrecy of the process.
		Many children born from donors are haunted by questions of identity, for which they blame companies that require anonymity as a condition of buying their sperm and eggs.
		A few sperm donor offspring have circumvented the system, finding their biological fathers through ad-hoc Internet registries and long-shot DNA tests, using the shards of biographical information provided by the sperm banks or clinics.
	www.boston.com /yourlife/health/other/articles/2006/01/20/are_you_my_sperm_donor_few_clinics_will_say (1433 words)

	Donor Sperm
		Donor insemination can be used as an effective treatment for male factor infertility or for single women who desire children.
		The sperm is frozen and kept for 6 months and the donor is then tested again for HIV to make sure that he did not have a recent HIV infection when he produced the semen specimen.
		On the day of ovulation, the washed semen specimen consisting of a purified fraction of motile sperm is placed high in the uterine cavity (intrauterine insemination) using a very thin and soft catheter introduced through the cervix.
	www.advancedfertility.com /donor.htm (398 words)

	Australian Sperm Donor Registry - Egg Donation Information
		We know that it is a lot more involved than being a sperm donor, but hopefully there will be some caring people out there who will see the amazing benefit this act of kindness can have to a couple.
		Donors and their partners must undergo at least 2 counselling sessions to discuss the psychosocial and legal aspects of donation.
		Donors must agree to sign a consent form that includes a release to the donated eggs.
	www.australianspermdonorregistry.com /eggdonors.htm (736 words)

	Children with gene disorder share sperm donor dad - sex - 23 May 2006 - New Scientist
		While the researchers were unable to test the donor’s sperm for legal reasons, they believe that his sperm is the source of the mutation because it is “implausible” that four unrelated healthy mothers would contribute this single mutation to their children.
		Sperm donations from people of Jewish heritage, for example, are checked for mutations relating to Tay-Sachs disease, while donations from people of African descent are checked for mutations relating to sickle-cell anaemia.
		Donors in the US have no requirement to reveal their identities and most remain anonymous.
	www.newscientist.com /article/dn9208-children-with-gene-disorder-share-sperm-donor-dad.html (721 words)

	Sought After Sperm Donor Connects with Teenage Offspring - Associated Content
		Sperm donors must be between 19 and 39 years old to provide superior quality of sperm.
		Many of the sperm bank's specimens are from graduates of University of California LA (UCLA), University of Southern California (USC), University of California Berkeley (UCB), Stanford, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
		After passing the initial screening process, sperm donors must pass in-depths medical interviews and tests which identify family history of diseases like diabetes and cancer.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/151266/sought_after_sperm_donor_connects_with.html (695 words)

	Sperm Donor Parental Rights/Obligations Lawyers & Legal Information
		Pennsylvania, for instance, recently decided a case that forced a sperm donor to pay child support for the child he created, even though the mother was married to someone else at the time of insemination, and he had a contract that was supposed to relieve him of child support obligations.
		Truly anonymous sperm donation, generally done through a bank, is allowed in almost every state, and since your contract will be with the bank itself, (and not with the mother), your anonymity and waiver of rights/obligations will usually be upheld.
		But some states do have laws that allow children of anonymous sperm donors to learn the identity of their genetic father when they turn 21, so again, it is important that you contact a lawyer and talk to the bank about your rights before committing to a decision.
	www.legalmatch.com /law-library/article/sperm-donor-parental-rightsobligations.html (1028 words)

	How To Be A Donor
		The second possibility is that your sperm is frozen, six months later you return for another round of infectious disease tests / donation and the initial donation is thawed and transferred to the Recipient Couple.
		Donor's are generally compensated $3,000-$6,000 for their participation upon completion of their donation, and are paid within 72 hours of transfer to Recipient Couple.
		Depending on the Couple who chooses to work with you, you may be required to travel (all expenses paid by the Couple) 5-10 days at the end of your cycle and possibly once at the beginning of your cycle for your initial screening process.
	www.spermdonorsinc.com /How_To_Be_A_Donor.html (653 words)

	OHSU Infertility Lab - Donor Sperm Bank
		All prospective sperm donors must have a minimum educational background and are extensively screened following guidelines established by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the American Association of Tissue Banks.
		Donors are tested initially and/or periodically for gonorrhea, syphilis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C virus (HCV), HTLV-1, cytomegalovirus, chlamydia, and HIV (the AIDS test), sickle cell carrier status (donors with African American ancestry), and Tay-Sachs carrier status (donors with Jewish ancestry)
		Some sperm donors may be in such high demand that it may be difficult to purchase them from the donor list.
	www.fertilityoregon.com /lab/spermbank.htm (815 words)

	Sperm Bank Directory
		An anonymous sperm donor is a man who chooses, for any number of possible reasons, to donate his sperm anonymously to a couple who cannot have a child due to male factor infertility.
		Each sperm bank has its own requirements and procedures for their sperm donors; however many requirements are universal i.e.
		That is, they will not release payments to a sperm donor until he has completed the second set of blood tests; six months after the first set were done.
	www.spermbankdirectory.com /sbdonating.htm (648 words)

	Donor Offspring - www.amfor.net
		When my partners donor daughter speaks out against DI she is invariably told that she is not grateful for her life and she must be experiencing deeper life problems and using DI as a scapegoat.
		All sperm and egg donors would be able voluntarily to enter their names on a central register with details of when and where they made the donation.
		Donors whose natural children developed a medical condition that required tissue donation might also benefit from being able to contact donor offspring to see whether they would donate blood or tissue.
	www.amfor.net /DonorOffspring (3321 words)

	Pacific Reproductive Services \| How We Select Our Donors
		All donors are screened for health problems and fertility potential, as well as for absence of serious hereditary disorders and infectious diseases.
		To assess sperm count and motility, a semen analysis and test freezing is done on at least three ejaculates before the donor is accepted.
		All frozen donor semen is kept quarantined for at least six (6) months, at which time the donor is re-tested and found to be free of HIV and other infectious diseases before his specimens are released.
	www.pacrepro.com /our_selection.htm (488 words)

	Sperm Donor Relationship
		In this case - the father is nothing more than a Sperm Donor - the relationship of the parents - their marriage and the issues that go with it - not needed to complete the karma.
		In the Sperm Donor relationship - the father usually does not provide anything but his sperm - and once fertilizaton is complete - looks for ways to end the relationship - as he has other karma to complete.
		In the Sperm Donor Relationship - the X's and Y's will do their thing...but one must determne what is the karma all about.
	www.crystalinks.com /spermdonor.html (669 words)

	Baby Corner - Donor Insemination - Sperm Donor Screening
		A sperm donor is a man who donates his sperm to a sperm bank or directly to the doctor.
		Many of the sperm banks are strict as to which type of lifestyle they will accept - in example - they prefer not to accept someone who is at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases, or very promiscuous.
		In most of the cases of a sperm donor donating for random use - the sperm is quarantined for at least six months, at which time the donor will be tested again for the sexually transmitted and infectious diseases.
	www.thebabycorner.com /page.php?iid=1357 (426 words)

	Sperm Donor Program & Sperm Bank - University of Utah
		As a result, individuals with azoospermia, or those for whom IVF is not a realistic option, turn to the use of donor sperm to achieve pregnancy.
		You are responsible for purchasing the donor samples and having them shipped and stored; payment for the current storage period must be paid in advance, and is based in part on the number of inseminations you will be storing.
		Donor samples that are stored at our facility must also be prepared by our facility for insemination when you are ready to use them.
	uuhsc.utah.edu /andrology/clinical_services_1.html (536 words)

	Therapeutic Donor Sperm Insemination
		In cases where the male partner is sterile, has a very low sperm count, or there is a possibility of male-linked genetic abnormality, or if no male partner is available, anonymous donor sperm may be used.
		Sperm donors are tested for transmissible diseases, such as HIV, Hepatitis B and C, as well as their blood type.
		We recommend that the donor undergoes testing as with anonymous donors and we recommend highly that the sperm be quarantined for six months before use.
	www.firstivf.net /therapeutic_donor_insemination.htm (296 words)

	TSBC: Become a Sperm Donor
		You are not paid during screening, but if you are accepted as a donor, you will be paid retroactively for all samples we are able to save from the screening period.
		California Family Code states that sperm donors are not considered the legal fathers of any children conceived from their sperm.
		This program is designed to give adults conceived through donor insemination the option of learning their donor's identity in case they have unanswered questions about their genetic background.
	www.thespermbankofca.org /spermdonor.html (759 words)

	Sperm Donors - Scandinavian sperm donors - Sperm Bank
		Potential sperm donors from a broad cross-section of Scandinavian society are quizzed about their family health histories, illnesses, use of legal and illegal drugs and their motivation for becoming a sperm donor.
		The approved donors are then tested again, every three months, for as long as we offer their donations.
		We also follow the guidelines of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, which require that we limit the number of sperm donor offspring in a particular geographical region to one in 32,000.
	www.scandinaviancryobank.com /sperm-donors.aspx (298 words)

	Pacific Reproductive Services \| How To Become A PRS Sperm Donor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Donating sperm is literally giving the gift of life to a child and fulfilling the dream of parenthood for many individuals and couples.
		California law says that a man who provides his semen to a licensed sperm bank for the purpose of inseminating a woman who is not his wife, is not seen as a natural father to any subsequent offspring.
		We limit the number of offspring per donor to twenty (20) families worldwide and the anonymous donor's identity is not revealed to the recipient or any children born from his sperm.
	www.hellobaby.com /how_to_become.htm (573 words)

	Gay Family Options - Utah
		We are looking for a donor only, no contact with the child would be our preference, but may be willing to negotiate.
		There would be no responsibility from the donor, but I would consider contact or allow the child to know who you are if that is what you would like.
		Donor would not be known as dad, maybe Uncle.
	www.gayfamilyoptions.org /utah.html (504 words)

	UK sperm donor crisis
		A study by a leading UK fertility centre has found that the numbers of men — especially students — coming forward as potential sperm donors fell sharply after 2000, almost certainly due to growing awareness that changes in the law would be removing the right to anonymity.
		The acceptability rate of donors (donor release rate) also declined over the study period because of the introduction of stringent criteria aimed at improving standards of recruitment.
		She added that it was also important to make clear the level of commitment required as this had possibly contributed to the 30% drop-out rate over the decade of the study, particularly in the early days when fertility issues were less well known to the public.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-11/esfh-usd110705.php (1053 words)

	The Sperm Bank of NY, Inc.
		Donors sign-up for a period of not less then six (6) consecutive months, and may remain active in the program for a maximum period of three years.
		Every donor must be ready to collect his semen specimen on the premises at The Sperm Bank of New York.
		In addition, the donor may be asked to enter into a separate agreement with the recipient and/or couple that have chosen this type of donor program.
	www.sperm1.com /sbny/donor.html (1396 words)

	ABC News: Confessions of a Sperm Donor
		Kirk Maxey was one of the most generous sperm donors on the planet.
		Their sperm would be checked for sexually transmitted diseases, HIV and some chromosomal abnormalities, but little else.
		Once cleared by the clinic, donors like Maxey could be called, often at inconvenient moments, because the technology for freezing sperm had not been developed back then.
	abcnews.go.com /Nightline/Health/story?id=1982328&page=1 (428 words)

	Sperm Donor Anonymity
		While the advent of recent FDA regulations for United States (US) sperm banks may be complicating their lives and raising the cost of doing business, another looming issue may have greater implications for sperm banks and their donors and recipients alike.
		Since the announcement of this change in standards for the sperm donors, there has been a steady decrease in the number of sperm donors that have applied to programs, with the sharpest decline being after 2000.
		Sometimes the concern of using donor sperm is the concern that the donor will obtain information about them and seek them out and try to infiltrate their life and that of the child.
	www.inciid.org /article.php?cat=maleinfertility&id=434 (883 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Sperm donor anonymity ends
		An estimated 7,000 patients receive treatment with donated eggs and sperm, known as gametes, every year and, as a result, 2,000 children are born.
		Around 500 sperm donors and 1,500 egg donors are needed each year.
		The change in the rules means that children conceived using donor eggs or sperm will be able to trace their biological parent in the same way as children who are adopted.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/4397249.stm (605 words)

	My short, scary career as a sperm donor. - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine
		After talking to donors from the Nobel sperm bank, I remained puzzled about why they had bothered with such a peculiar and burdensome enterprise.
		The sperm bank itself is only one small division of a full-service fertility business, the Genetics and IVF Institute.
		I was not much closer to wanting to be a donor than I had been before I started, but I was closer to understanding why someone else might want to do it.
	www.slate.com /id/2119998 (2554 words)

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