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The Case of the Serial Sperm Donor
One man, hundreds of children and a burning question: Why?
Credit.Keith Negley
In 2015, Vanessa van Ewijk, a carpenter in the Netherlands, decided that she wanted to have a child. She was 34 and single, and so, like many women, she sought out a sperm donor.
She considered conceiving through a fertility clinic, but the cost was prohibitive for her. Instead, she found an ideal candidate through a website called Desire for a Child, one of a growing number of online sperm markets that match candidate donors directly with potential recipients. Ms. van Ewijk was drawn to one profile in particular, that of Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a Dutch musician in his 30s.
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BLOOMSBURG, Penn., Jan. 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Conrad B. Quintyn, Ph.D., explores how scientists seeking to repair defects in humans have ushered in the age of the new eugenics in his new book The New Eugenics: Modifying Biological Life in the Twenty-First Century (published by Archway Publishing).
The author argues that increasingly, scientists believe that improving the health, environment, and safety of humankind justifies the risks. The book encompasses many biotechnologies within the definition of the new eugenics because these technologies are used to improve the stock, when the stock in this case are all humans. In addition to discussing the new genetics in terms of in vitro fertilization and PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis) like other researchers, Quintyn talks about other biotechnologies as well. Additionally, he includes animals in the new eugenics because the success, advances, techniques, and science of genetic engineering could not have