infertility

World's biggest sperm bank, Cryos, tells redheads: We don't want your semen Michael Sheridan New York Daily News 09/18/2011	One Sperm Donor, 150 Offspring JACQUELINE MROZ The New York Times 09/05/2011
The world's largest sperm bank is telling redheads to keep their semen. Demand for ginger-haired donors is so low that Cryos International says they needn't bother donating.	Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half siblings — an extended family of sorts for modern times. So Ms. Daily searched a Web-based registry for other children fathered by the same donor and helped to create an online group to track them. Over the years, she watched the number of children in her son’s group grow. And grow. Today there are 150 children, all conceived with sperm from one donor, in this group of half siblings, and more are on the way.
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Labor of Love: Woman Carries Her Daughter's Baby ABC News 02/15/2011	Los Angeles sperm bank organizes donors by celebrity look-a-likes JOHN ADAMS and COLLEEN WILLIAMS NBC Los Angeles 07/19/2010
A mother's love takes many forms. For Kristine Casey, 61, it meant giving the gift of motherhood to her infertile daughter by carrying and giving birth to her own grandson. With the help of hormone supplementation, Casey, who had gone through menopause 10 years earlier, became pregnant during her second round of in vitro fertilization, the Chicago Tribune reported.	Choosing a sperm donor can be overwhelming for many couples and even more challenging to those who are trying to go it alone. There is a ton of information one has to sift through: donor's blood type, favorite color and even high school G.P.A. However, what the donor looks like is one aspect expecting mothers won't be able to see.
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Payment Offers to Egg Donors Prompt Scrutiny DAVID TULLER The New York Times 05/10/2010	Out for the count: Why levels of sperm in men are falling Steve Connor The Independent 04/26/2010
As an undergraduate at the University of Washington in the late 1990s, Wendie Wilson noticed some striking ads in the campus newspaper: appeals to young women to sell their eggs for what seemed to her exorbitant sums of money. But she had no idea what was involved until she herself decided to go through the process a few years later.	Levels of 'viable' sperm in human males are falling – and scientists believe they now understand the cause. Infertility can begin in the womb, says Steve Connor
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Turkish law penalizes women who travel abroad for artificial insemination 03/16/2010
A new Turkish law makes it a criminal offence for a woman to go abroad and get pregnant via artificial insemination.
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