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Anonymous Donors: Not Anymore

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Paul

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Date Posted: Tue 22 November, 2005 21:02:16

This is an interesting little segment that 'Paula Zahn Now' had on November 22, 2005.

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/22/pzn.01.html

The clip was Who's Your Daddy? and it begins a little more than halfway down the page. For those of you that want to remain anonymous either through a sperm bank or online, its no longer guaranteed.

This pretty well puts it in perspective:

"FEYERICK: Dr. Cappy Rothman is a pioneer in the field of donor sperm.

(on camera): What are we looking at here?

ROTHMAN: The next generation.

FEYERICK (voice-over): He founded California Cryobank in the mid-1970s, and estimated as many as than three quarters of a million babies have been born from his sperm bank alone, a daunting number considering there are now 150 sperm banks across the country.

When Rothman began, the controversy was using a stranger's sperm to have a baby. The controversy now, Rothman says, children trying to track down their genetic donors, men who never intended to be found.

(on camera): Do you guarantee the anonymity of the donors?

ROTHMAN: We try to, we thought we did, we hoped we could. But after what's been taking place with the misuse of some of the technology out there, I don't think we can absolutely guarantee. FEYERICK (voice-over): Most potential mothers sign contracts agreeing to respect a potential donor's privacy. Wendy says she never did. It may not matter. Testing DNA is as easy as swabbing your cheek, and the growth of genetic databases could make it all but impossible for donors to remain anonymous. One teenager recently used a saliva sample, had his DNA analyzed, and found his genetic father through a DNA database."

Just a heads up to anonymous donors out there that think their offspring will have a hard time finding them.

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