Sperm donor bureaucracy introduced in the U.K. – Men walk and women get hurt

ArgusEyes — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:11:06 GMT

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081112160915.htm

ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2008) — A radical overhaul of sperm donation services is needed to address the critical shortage of sperm donors in the UK, say two fertility experts in an editorial on bmj.com today.

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They believe that the removal of donor anonymity in 2005 may have contributed to the current shortage of donors.

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The authors say increasing the number of families that can be created from a single donor should be considered. To prevent siblings born from donation later inadvertently having children together, UK law limits the number of families that can be created from any one donor to 10. But Hamilton and Pacey argue that this figure is arbitrary and not evidence based, and a more flexible approach is needed.

They point out that the size of the UK population is enough for a large safety margin to already exist. Interestingly, in the Netherlands, which has a smaller population than the UK, the upper limit is 25 offspring per donor, while in France it is five.

Basically remove anonymousness and reduce how many times donations can be made and you get a shortage. Wow, bureaucracy and government interference certainly helped women there didn’t it? I’m sure that Feminists will be lining up to blame men for this. How dare they be selfish enough to not put down their personal details so that they can get whacked for 10 sets of child support down the line when the next set of anti-male legislation gets passed?

A father's rights

ArgusEyes — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:51:22 GMT

A very interesting looking film.

Film webpage: http://g2rdistribution.com/

Trailer: http://g2rdistribution.com/afr.trailer.html

YouTube version:

Check out this guys channel as well, this guys is a campaigning divorced father with lots of videos relating to father's rights.

The trailer impressed me, you can go to the website and purchase the film for 15 bucks. I’m not sure how else this has been distributed. Be it on T.V. or in theatres but you can watch it online as well. I’m not really a fan of that, I prefer to actually own the product and there are issues with R1 vs. R2 DVD players (we use R2 in the U.K.). Also, I just forked out £260 (over 500 dollars) on a new exhaust and am not buying anything for the next month – guaranteed!

If I ever get this in the future you can be sure that I will review it but it does look promising. If any of you guys have watched the film then sent me your mini-reviews in the comments section.

Father's Rights

Sperm donor bureaucracy introduced in the U.K. – Men walk and women get hurt

A father's rights