One artificial insemination per cycle with donor sperm is as efficacious as two inseminations

In 2005, Serbia enacted a new Family Act, which is also applied in Vojvodina Regarding family planning, the Family Act has introduced a reform of the provisions on parentage in cases of medically assisted conception. Regarding motherhood, the basic rule is that the mother is considered to be the woman that gave birth to the child, regardless of whether she is the genetic mother or whether the genetic material of another woman has been used. As for fatherhood, the basic rule is that the father is considered to be the husband or cohabiting partner of the mother, if he has given his written consent to artificial insemination. This rule applies both in cases of AIH (artificial insemination with husband/cohabiting partner sperm) and AID (artificial insemination with donor sperm). This paper deals with the issue of surrogate motherhood in European countries, as well. The regulation of the Family Act on parentage in cases of medically assisted conception presupposes the application of certain techniques of medical conception. These are the donation of the egg cell, embryo, AIH and AID. Furthermore, this regulation stipulates that subjects of medically assisted conception can be, besides spouses, heterosexual cohabiting partners. These issues, however, should be addressed by another law that would fully govern the area of medically assisted conception. Unfortunately, in contrast to the majority of European countries, such a law still does not exist in Serbia.

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Improving Population Quality

Good Quality ◽

10.1525/california/9780520297777.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ayo Wahlberg

Keyword(s):

Artificial Insemination ◽

Genetic Disease ◽

Male Partner ◽

Consanguineous Marriage ◽

Potential Threat ◽

Donor Sperm ◽

Sperm Banking ◽

National Family Planning ◽

Population Quality

Beyond the treatment of infertility, donor sperm is also made available to couples if the male partner is considered to suffer from a genetic disease and is deemed “not suitable for reproduction” because of a risk that the disease will be transmitted to offspring, thereby negatively affecting the quality of China’s newborn population. There are far fewer cases of donor sperm being used in this way than to address infertility. Chapter 2 shows how artificial insemination by donor both purports to contribute to the improvement of national population quality while, at the same time, introducing a potential threat to this quality in the form of possible unwitting consanguineous marriage of donor siblings. Sperm banking in China is inextricably bound to national family planning objectives to improve the quality of newborns.

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Semen Banking and Artificial Insemination by Donor in France: Social and Medical Discourse

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care ◽

10.1017/s0266462300002038 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 219-229 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Simone B. Novaes

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Male Infertility ◽

Artificial Insemination ◽

Medical Discourse ◽

Psychological Benefits ◽

Donor Sperm ◽

Psychological Conditions ◽

Frozen Semen ◽

Reproductive Techniques ◽

Fresh Semen

Artificial insemination with donor semen (AID) has recently come into public view—particularly in France—because of its association with a newer technique, the cryopreservation of semen. One of the oldest and simplest of reproductive techniques, used most frequently as a means of compensating for male infertility, artificial insemination was previously confined to the private clinician's office, where maximum confidentiality could be ensured. This shielded all of the parties involved—recipients, donor, and physician—from moral reprobation and the possible legal complications arising from the use of donor sperm. However, in the mid-twentieth century, some physicians and researchers in cyrogenics came up with the idea that the freezing and stocking of donor semen in banks might greatly improve the psychological conditions and facilitate the material arrangements for performing AID. Essentially, the donor's availability would no longer have to coincide with the woman's ovulation, meaning less inconvenience for the donor, more time for screening his medical history and running the necessary tests on his semen, and possibly a certain tempering of AID's adulterous connotations. Although results with frozen semen were not as satisfactory as with fresh (the probability of a pregnancy at any cycle is almost twice as great with fresh semen), the material and psychological benefits were considered greatly to outweigh the lesser efficiency of frozen sperm.

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