Regis Philbin
Aug 11th, 2006, 10:34 PM
I thought Norway was supposed to be an "enlightened" and "progressive" country... :scratch:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1414364.ece
Homosexuals unfit sperm donors
Oslo's Sperm Bank seeks to double its number of donors but is not interested in contributions from homosexuals.
A legislative change in January 2005 gave the child of a sperm donation the right to know the identity of the donor when reaching age 18. The sperm bank at Rikshospitalet, Oslo has been trying various recruitment drives to make up for the resulting reluctance but the Bank is far from its goal of finding 30-40 new donors every year, newspaper Dagsavisen reports.
Nevertheless, the Bank is unwilling to accept homosexual donors, despite the regulations not mentioning the exclusion of this group.
Laboratory chief Peter Fedorcsak is opposed to homosexual donors, and questions their psychological suitability for being donors.
"The main motivation for a donor must be a desire to help others, not, for example, donating sperm in order to spread one's own genes," Fedorcsak told Dagsavisen.
Fedorcsak said that both he and others at the Sperm Bank increasingly often turn down interested donors because the potential donors turn out to be most interested in getting children.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1414364.ece
Homosexuals unfit sperm donors
Oslo's Sperm Bank seeks to double its number of donors but is not interested in contributions from homosexuals.
A legislative change in January 2005 gave the child of a sperm donation the right to know the identity of the donor when reaching age 18. The sperm bank at Rikshospitalet, Oslo has been trying various recruitment drives to make up for the resulting reluctance but the Bank is far from its goal of finding 30-40 new donors every year, newspaper Dagsavisen reports.
Nevertheless, the Bank is unwilling to accept homosexual donors, despite the regulations not mentioning the exclusion of this group.
Laboratory chief Peter Fedorcsak is opposed to homosexual donors, and questions their psychological suitability for being donors.
"The main motivation for a donor must be a desire to help others, not, for example, donating sperm in order to spread one's own genes," Fedorcsak told Dagsavisen.
Fedorcsak said that both he and others at the Sperm Bank increasingly often turn down interested donors because the potential donors turn out to be most interested in getting children.