Borrowing Sperm

Good Quality ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayo Wahlberg
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Male Infertility ◽  
Artificial Insemination ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Donor Sperm ◽  
Control Donor ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
Infertile Couples

Once it passes quality control, donor sperm is “released” to the thousands of couples who are involuntarily childless because of azoospermia. Chapter 6 shows how for those infertile couples who “borrow” sperm in China, secrecy is as vital as male infertility is taboo. Through fertility clinics, artificial insemination by donor (AID) emerges as an opportunity to achieve a visible pregnancy, a pregnancy that couples are both in pursuit of and expected to deliver by family and friends. The chapter argues that in one-child policy China, recipient couples and donors mobilize strategies of “hearth” management and trouble avoidance as third-party conception has become acceptable for increasing numbers of involuntarily childless couples who are living with male infertility.

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

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-229 ◽  
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.

China's infamous one-child policy

The Lancet ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 365 (9455) ◽  
pp. 215-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
M KING
Keyword(s):  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy

Artificial Insemination: An Academic Analysis from the Perspectives of Sharia and Contemporary Medicine

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ayaz Niazi
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Insemination ◽  
Baby Girl ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Sharia Law ◽  
Medical Issues ◽  
Scholarly Article ◽  
Infertile Couples ◽  
Sperm Banks ◽  
Contemporary Medicine ◽  
The Uk

This scholarly article discusses the view of Islamic Sharia law pertaining to artificial insemination. Artificial insemination, as one of the contemporary medical issues, was not in existence in the era of Sharia jurisprudents. It emerged in the last century as a result of scientific and medical developments; as its first successful experience in the field was performed in the UK in 1977 on the birth of a baby girl called Louise Brown. The practice later proliferated in other western countries, even surpassing its legitimate aim of treating infertile couples, as it began to entail businesses such as womb comodification, the establishment of sperm banks, and the like.

The Uniform Status of Children of Assisted Conception Act: Does It Protect the Best Interests of the Child in a Surrogate Arrangement?

1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-553
Author(s):  
Mimi Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Insemination ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Medical Procedures ◽  
Assisted Conception ◽  
Regulatory Scheme ◽  
Infertile Couples ◽  
Definition Of

Medical technology is easing the plight of many infertile couples by offering such reproductive alternatives as in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination and surrogacy. In response to the changes in our society's definition of family, wrought by scientific advances, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform States Laws promulgated the Uniform Status of Children of Assisted Conception Act. The purpose of this Act is to protect the interests of children born through extraordinary medical procedures. This Note analyzes the Act's provisions regarding surrogacy and focuses on how the Commission's regulatory scheme fails to protect the child's interests. The Act's alternative of voiding the surrogacy contract also does not protect the child's interests. A more complete regulatory scheme which protects the adult parties’ interests, as well as the child's, should be devised, as the adequacy of the adult parties’ protection ultimately affects the child's well-being.

Infertility and the Military Male

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (01) ◽  
pp. 005-011
Author(s):  
Amanda B. Reed-Maldonado ◽  
Kristin C. Madden
Keyword(s):  
Male Infertility ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Clinical Investigation ◽  
Male Factor Infertility ◽  
Military Population ◽  
Male Factor ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Military Service Members ◽  
Infertile Couples ◽  
The Military

AbstractMale infertility is a condition that affects approximately 50% of infertile couples and about 30% of those couples have only male factor infertility identified. There has been speculation that male military service members may have an even greater lifetime prevalence of infertility as compared to the general population, but very few scientific publications focus on male factor infertility in the military population specifically. This review will discuss many of the unique considerations regarding male infertility in the military and highlight future opportunities for research. The military/federal health system has the potential to serve as a leader in both the delivery of health care for male factor infertility and in the clinical investigation into the etiologies of and treatments for male factor infertility.

scholarly journals Frog Metaphors in Mo Yan’s Novel 蛙 /UA55/ (Frog): A Cognitive Perspective

MANUSYA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-153
Author(s):  
Yao Siqi
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mo Yan ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
Chinese Author

《蛙》/ua55/ (frog) by the Nobel Prize winning Chinese author Mo Yan describes China’s changing its highly controversial one - child policy and system of forced abortions over the past half-century. Frog metaphors are omnipresent throughout the novel. The present study aims to investigate these metaphors within the framework of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and the “GREAT CHAIN OF BEING” system of George Lakoff and Mark Turner (1989) to deepen our understanding of their nature and manifestations. Zoltán Kövecses’s (2002) “HUMAN BEINGS ARE ANIMALS” and “ANIMALS ARE HUMAN BEINGS” were also considered as cognitive metaphorical models. Moreover, the viewpoint of “phonetic metaphor” initially proposed by Ivan Fónagy (1999) was also taken into account. Results were that in Mo Yan’s work, the frog plays an essential role in the conceptualizing conventional views of certain areas in China. The analysis demonstrates how a cognitive approach offers an effective way to explore the cognitive basis of the text’s view on the complex relationship between the basic human rights and the dilemmas of living in a repressive society. This paper also hopes to make a certain contribution to comprehending frog metaphors in terms of more clearly delineated concepts and ideology reflecting China’s real society of a one-child policy and its traditional counter - policy notion.

China's three-children policy will see limited success

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Content Type ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Limited Success ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
The One

Significance This year it increased the limit to three. The one-child policy has served more to exacerbate than to alleviate demographic problems, leaving China with an ageing population and shrinking workforce much sooner than other countries at this stage of economic development. Impacts Rising infertility will play a part in depressing birth rates. Vested interests and the government's proclivity for social control will prevent the wholesale abolition of family planning. National and local authorities will introduce policies to promote reproduction; not all of them will necessarily be socially liberal.

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