Some women are seeking sperm outside the expensive, complicated clinical process – but experts says there are major risks to informal donations
Going to a sperm donor clinic means high costs and long wait times, largely because it involves rigorous health testing, counselling and legal procedures.Going to a sperm donor clinic means high costs and long wait times, largely because it involves rigorous health testing, counselling and legal procedures.Tamara and Brodie Mae met the father of their child near his house.
Rebecca Kerner, the Australian and New Zealand Infertility Counsellors Association chair, says the waiting lists for sperm donors vary between clinics, but can be up to two years. The pandemic worsened the pre-existing sperm shortage. Meanwhile, for some women the need to find a donor can become urgent – and so they turn to the unregulated world of online sperm donations.Kerner is just one of a range of fertility experts who are warning women of the health and legal risks of informal donations.
Yet another concern is that, while many choose AI, others prefer NI. There have been cases of a potential recipient meeting a donor, only to have them allegedlyKerner says women needed to be “empowered and fully informed” about their decisions in a space full of “many mistruths”. She says sexually transmitted infections were a risk, that some donors had such low sperm counts they should instead be considered “semen donors”, and that she had spoken to women putting themselves in physically risky situations because they were about to ovulate and therefore in a rush.Informal donors are able to breach the caps in place across the country to limit the number of donor siblings , and the possibility of incest between them.
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