LOL WUTMy body my choice, keep your laws out of my reproductive system! - Wait, not like that! Woman suing sperm donor for being prolific.

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[–]Femaleisnthateful 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Stories like this are why we need better regulations (if not total abolition) of assisted reproduction.

There are a lot of details missing here. Are there supposed to be limits on how much sperm (or eggs) a donor can provide? How much information are recipients entitled to have about donors?

Is the woman's grievance just the heightened risk of her child having an unintentional relationship with a genetic sibling in the future? If that's the case, why go this route at all?

Maybe choose to have children with a man you can trust and who actually wants to be a father? Society is going to get really fucked up by all of this.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've always just kind of considered that if the pregnancy won't get going naturally for whatever reason that just means you aren't "fit" for reproduction from an evolutionary standpoint.

Doesn't mean you aren't fit to contribute to society, doesn't mean you are worthless as a human or even a parent (adoption).

Does mean that maybe for whatever reason we shouldn't be continuing genetic lines that don't work?

[–]Femaleisnthateful 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I would appreciate fertility 'medicine' more if it actually addressed the underlying causes of fertility issues. Instead Big Fertility works to circumvent them with increasingly Orwellian techniques. An egg from a donor here, sperm from there, put them in a Ukrainian surrogate, sell the baby to its buyers (if the buyers don't bail or order an abortion first), and let some polyamourous clan raise it as a theyby. These kids are going to grow up without a biological anchor to their own heritage, and no one's thought about the implications of this.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sure fixing the underlying problem so things can work normally or close enough. That's medicine. No problems there.

I wonder what's going to happen when you've got sexual or race selection "designer babies" coming round. Like imagine if a parent paid like $30,000 for an infertile hermaphrodite baby or some shit like that and the child grew up to regret it.

Like we, we have our problems and our identity crisis and whatnot, but we can't blame our parents really for our genetic problems, we have to blame god.

But a designer baby holy shit, that's all on the parents, and holy shit that's going to be a whole kettle of worms once someone opens that up.