Abstract
Faced with an increase in sperm bank ‘accidents’ – the lacuna of suitable legal redress begs to be filled. This article demonstrates for the first time that some harms imposed by sperm banks transcend merely violating personal goals of the parent and rights of the child but infringes societal rights by saddling it with additional health costs for children born with genetic diseases, and impairs the population gene pool beyond the normal background level that nature inflicts. Among reasons contributing to the problem is the lack of enforceable regulation regarding the number of ‘donations’ the sperm supplier provides, allowing sperm ‘suppliers’ to father hundreds of children. The current practice of anonymity further compounds the problem, while enriching the coffers of the sperm-bank industry …
Billauer, Barbara P, The Sperm-Banking Crisis and the Need for a New Means of Legal Redress or New Tricks for Old Torts (November 25, 2018).
First posted 2018-12-09 08:43:01
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