August
21
  5:15:21 PM

Sperm donor offspring seek more respect and rights

Katrina Clark found her biological fatherKatrina Clark, 21, and Lindsay Greenawalt, 25, were both conceived with donor sperm and raised by single mothers. Katrina succeeded in finding her biological fathers and Lindsay failed. According to a report from Associated Press, they are part of an increasingly outspoken generation of sperm donor offspring. Speaking from experience, they have advocated publically for the rights of sperm donor children, in particular their right to know their biological fathers.

“The loss associated with being donor conceived is something that I will carry for the rest of my life, and that to deliberately create a human being with that loss is unethical,” Ms Greenwalt wrote recently on her blog, Confessions of a Cryokid.

All she knows about her father is that he is 49, attended college, and has brown hair and greenish eyes. She knows a few medical… click here to read whole article and make comments




 

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