In this week’s edition of TIME Magazine, Jay Newton-Small explores why America has become the largest exporter of sperm.It cites various factors, mostly involving laws and quality control. It says Sweden, Austria, and the United Kingdom abolished anonymous donations and that fair-haired donors are preferred, even in South America, Africa and Asia. Israel requires non-Jewish sperm for its Jewish women, as Judaism is passed down through the mother. Mediterranean women come to the USA for sperm, if their own country frowns upon single motherhood. Top donors can be paid $500.
Time says:
While it would be hard for foreign offspring to claim U.S. citizenship -- unless their genetic fathers helped them -- it's possible that sperm-donor fathers might be forced to take responsibility for them.Is this the future of fatherhood?
"Someone could show up -- say, a 16-year-old whose parents died in France," says Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. "He may know his sperm father and say, 'I think you should support me.' American courts decide [such] issues to the child's best interest. They're not interested in promises from sperm banks. It may not make the child a citizen, but it sure makes the donor a dad."
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Interesting.
"Fair haired"? More PC talk. That means white sperm is preferred. Interesting phenomenon, especially since race isn't real, much like gender.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT ISRAELI/JEWISH LAWS.. I THNK IT'S MORE COMPLEX AND I CHANGING.
I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE WRONG, I'M JUST SAYING THAT THERE'S A LOT MORE TO IT, AND DIFFERENT VIEWS AND RESONS THAN YOU ARE SUGGESTING.
I am just quoting Time magazine. It was news to me.
AGAIN, IT'S COMPLICATED.. THERE'S ISRAEL'S LAWS, AND THEN THERE'S JEWISH LAWS THAT ARE OBSERVED OR OBEYED, TOO. IT'S UNCLEAR TO ME WHAT'S GOING ON AND HOW IT WORKS.
WEIRD THING IS, THAT ISRAEL TOPS THE LIST IN WOMEN SPERM RECIPIENTS. I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT I READ SO.
Rabbi Dov Lior says Jewish Law prohibits sterile couples from conceiving using non-Jew's sperm. 100% normal'
Kobi Nahshoni
Published: 01.12.11, 08:30 / Israel Jewish Scene
All I know is that the Time story says, "Because Judaism is passed down through the mother and because generations of closely held bloodlines have led to a higher prevalence of rare diseases such as Tay-Sachs and cystic fibrosis among Israelis, non-Jewish sperm ensures a dilution of the gene pool." I always thought that Jewish women wanted to marry Jewish men.
OK, YOU'RE RIGHT. JEWISH WOMEN "USUALLY" WANT TO MARRY JEWISH MEN, BUT I THINK YOU'RE TALKING APPLES AND ORANGES HERE.
JEWISH WOMEN AND JEWISH MARRIED COUPLES, WANT JEWISH SPOUSES IN GENERAL, BUT THESE JEWISH WOMEN AND COUPLES THAT EXPERIENCE TROUBLE CONCEIVING SHOULD WANT HEALTHY BABIES AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, RIGHT ?
SO CHOOSING TO HAVE A HEALTHIER BABY IS NOT THE SAME AS OPTING TO MARRY A GENTILE VS. A JEW.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE HIGH RATE OF GENETIC DISEASES AMONGST JEWISH COUPLES RELATES TO THEIR EXCEPTIONALLY HIGHER RATE IN THE USAGE OF SPERM DONORS OR NOT, MAYBE ? COULD BE, I SUPPOSE ?
Modern Judaism is not a race. It's a state-based religion - 'Zionism', if you like. Anyone can convert to it if they jump through the appropriate hoops. But Israel has always been a matriarchal society, in which 'Jewishness' is 'transferred' from one generation to the next matrilinearly. Thus, while Orthodox Jews will resist the idea of receiving 'non-Jewish' sperm from a donor, non-Orthodox Jews (and by that I mean the very much in charge Israeli women) are unlikely to have such compuntion.
Eugenics is embedded in the entire history of the biblical Nation of Israel (all those begats and begets in the Torah and Talmud are a genetic record), so it is no surprise that the modern version, the much less scrupulous or obedient and much more political Zionic Nation of Israel, would exhibit the same spermic preferences with just as much disobedience to God's commands as their spiritual ancestors. The founders of the eugenics movement, and it's greatest proponents are Zionists. The Rothschilds and Rockefellers, the controlling families of the vast majority of the world's wealth and influence, who seeded and funded the feminist movement, are modern Zionists.
The Bene Gesserit witches have never not been in total sperm control. It is very odd that we are still unaware of this fact. It's in the bible for God's sake.
I had to look up the Bene Gesserit witches. They are characters in Frank Herbert's Dune. If sperm banks get more popular, then eugenics is going in a whole new direction.
Is this the future of fatherhood?
No. It's the present.
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