‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children (www.theguardian.com)
from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 14 Apr 20:19
https://sh.itjust.works/post/36116382

At least 85 sperm donors in the Netherlands have fathered 25 or more children, the national gynaecology and obstetrics organisation has said, after a new registration system showed fertility clinics have been breaking existing rules on sperm donation for decades.

The NVOG said on Monday that some clinics had deliberately used sperm batches more than 25 times, exchanged sperm without the necessary paperwork or donors’ knowledge, and allowed the same donors to donate sperm at multiple clinics.

“The number of so-called ‘mass donors’ should be zero,” gynaecologist Marieke Schoonenberg told the TV show Nieuwsuur. “On behalf of the whole profession, we wish to apologise. We didn’t do things as they should have been done.”

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My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world on 14 Apr 21:02 next collapse

Sounds like there could be a lot of kissing cousins…

girthero@lemmy.world on 14 Apr 23:02 next collapse

Half siblings more like

Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 15 Apr 00:18 next collapse

The Netherlands shall be Habsburg land once more!

Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org on 15 Apr 07:06 collapse

Sounds like there could be a lot of kissing cousins…

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InvertedParallax@lemm.ee on 14 Apr 21:54 next collapse

The CEO of the fertility clinics, one Melon Rusk, refused to comment.

Beetschnapps@lemmy.world on 14 Apr 23:45 next collapse

I do like the idea being a dude that causes a straight up “medical calamity” just by being fertile… I mean fuck the system but damn…

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 15 Apr 00:21 collapse

Yeah no, this is not a system you want to fuck with. This will end up with brothers and sisters having babies and as exciting as the incest porn fantasy is (there is a reason why all porn sites have it everywhere now) the reality is different when you have a baby with genetic defects.

Similarly there are loads of other “systems” you really really don’t want to fuck with

Beetschnapps@lemmy.world on 15 Apr 00:55 next collapse

No I straight up agree. This is a legal snafu that I will gladly side step…

x00z@lemmy.world on 15 Apr 08:37 collapse

This is why I always do a simple DNA test to see if I am dating my sibling.

ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world on 15 Apr 00:51 collapse

Good god, include the word “each”.