America has a Black sperm donor shortage. Black women are paying the price.

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The severe shortage is forcing Black women who need donor sperm into a painful choice: Choose a donor of another race and raise a biracial child or try to buy sperm from unregulated apps and online groups.

The reasons for the shortage are myriad: failure among cryobanks to recruit Black donors; a selection process that demands a three-generation medical history (which may be challenging for Black men who may not have access to quality health care) and excludes donors with felony convictions; mistrust of the medical profession by Black men because of a legacy of historical discrimination.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/20/black-sperm-donors/
 
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Is this what the South African Communist party calls: "Colonisation of a special type"?
 
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America has a Black sperm donor shortage

Only 2 percent of sperm donors in the United States are Black. This, in turn, leaves many aspiring Black parents with an agonizing choice: choose a donor of another race or try to buy sperm from unregulated apps and online groups.

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“If it's a White woman, she could just so easily get a sperm donor,” Ferguson says. “And if it doesn't work, she can get another one. She can get another one. For a Black woman, if she is lucky enough to find a Black donor, it's really maybe one of her only chances.”
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I don't know the rules in the US, but can't a woman ask a known person to donate? Yes, that person will have to go through the same process and can be declined. These regulations are strict.

The article I posted above, links to another 'pay gated' article highlighting that gay men are still banned from donating sperm. To quote then, a Yahoo article,

www.yahoo.com

Gay Men Banned From Donating Sperm and FDA Has No Plans to Change Policy

Only 1 percent of applicants pass a selective screening to donate sperm.
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Sperm banks face an uphill battle trying to get men of color, especially Black men, to donate sperm. Black sperm donors represent less than 2 percent of all sperm donors at the country’s four largest cryobanks, but that doesn’t stop Black men — especially gay men — from getting rejected.

The Washington Post recently delved into a story about TreVaughn Roach-Carter, who was rejected by the FDA at the Sperm Bank of California for checking a box for being gay. Regulations for sperm donation state that donations from men who have had sex with men in the past five years are prohibited.
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not sure, but I believe it may be related to HIV. I am not going into this since I know nothing about it hence don't want to make uneducated remarks. In my view, as long as you are in good health and age, you should be able and allowed to donate sperm.

From reading all this, the article is activism. The rules are very strict here too, but I don't have any data on our demographic samples.
 
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Seems to be healthy here,

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Seeding the future: On being a sperm donor in Johannesburg

There's a market for the life that lies in your loins. Billy Rivers considers a donation.
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“We really battle to find donors,” AW told me. Androcryos has only 14 South African donors. Seven are black, five are white, one is Indian and one is coloured. Despite the demand for them, Androcryos struggles specifically to find Zulu and Muslim donors. According to AW this is owed to cultural taboos regarding masturbation. “We are forever looking for all ethnicities … but what we cannot find here, we import from cryobanks in Denmark.”
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though we also struggle to get donors. Note, article is dated 2013.
 
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The article may be pay gated, but they have a short on YouTube,

 
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Fulcrum29 said:



I don't know the rules in the US, but can't a woman ask a known person to donate? Yes, that person will have to go through the same process and can be declined. These regulations are strict.

The article I posted above, links to another 'pay gated' article highlighting that gay men are still banned from donating sperm. To quote then, a Yahoo article,

www.yahoo.com

Gay Men Banned From Donating Sperm and FDA Has No Plans to Change Policy

Only 1 percent of applicants pass a selective screening to donate sperm.
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com



not sure, but I believe it may be related to HIV. I am not going into this since I know nothing about it hence don't want to make uneducated remarks. In my view, as long as you are in good health and age, you should be able and allowed to donate sperm.

From reading all this, the article is activism. The rules are very strict here too, but I don't have any data on our demographic samples.
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Can women donate sperm?

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Fulcrum29 said:
The article I posted above, links to another 'pay gated' article highlighting that gay men are still banned from donating sperm. To quote then, a Yahoo article,

www.yahoo.com

Gay Men Banned From Donating Sperm and FDA Has No Plans to Change Policy

Only 1 percent of applicants pass a selective screening to donate sperm.
www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com



not sure, but I believe it may be related to HIV. I am not going into this since I know nothing about it hence don't want to make uneducated remarks. In my view, as long as you are in good health and age, you should be able and allowed to donate sperm.
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HUH? You better believe it - it is directly and wholly related to HIV-infection.

Sperm is the most common vehicle for HIV infection, via intercourse.
 
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HUH? You better believe it - it is directly and wholly related to HIV-infection.

Sperm is the most common vehicle for HIV infection, via intercourse.
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Sadly, and also ironically, The Washington Post article is paygated, but the article is written in the activist’s vein to encourage change. It is a stab at the FDA which has strict regulations on sperm donations. Fewer restrictions, more options, but the restrictions are there due to reasons.
 
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Fulcrum29 said:
I don't know the rules in the US, but can't a woman ask a known person to donate? Yes, that person will have to go through the same process and can be declined. These regulations are strict.
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In many countries that could make a man liable for child support as he would be the legal father by law.
 
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In many countries that could make a man liable for child support as he would be the legal father by law.
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Yes, and there are indemnities though laws are laws and liability can continue to exist. Watching the short on this, the woman concerned did ask a friend to donate, but he wasn't around for the follow-up donation...
 
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Who can give a 3 generational medical history? I know of no one who has their parents or grandparents medical history. medical history they should actually be able to pick that up from the DNA in the sperm.

Are we like dogs and cats who are tested for being pure bred?
 
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