> >Hi JohnP

> >I would imagine this has been called to your attention before now . . . but
> >in case not . . . and for your other RAM friends who did not see it.

> >While reading The Playboy Advisor this morning (PLAYBOY April 2008) I came
> >across a question from a reader who is interested in becoming a sperm donor.
> >This person wants to meet the potential people he helps and asks Playboy how
> >to do this.

> >In their reply Playboy  lists several good reasons why knowing the person
> >who receives your sperm is not a good idea, including the one where the
> >recipient can sue and usually win support from the donor if he is known.
> >They add this exception, and they add it in parenthesis, and so will I.  (A
> >notable exception occurred in January in Pennsylvania, where the state
> >supreme court ruled that a man who donated sperm to a loved did not owe
> >support.  The justices said to rule otherwise would undermine women's right
> >to use known donors.)

> >Sounds familiar?

> Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!  What right has anyone to play these
> stupid bloody self-indulgent games with people's lives?

> Several years ago, a young woman, then about 20-21, appeared on TV in
> Australia describing the problems she faced as the first Australian
> so-called "test-tube baby".  She had no idea of, and could not find
> anything about, her sperm-donor father.  Among other more mundane, but
> to her very important things, she had several medical issues for the
> treatment of which she needed to know about her family medical
> history.  It was a very enlightening and startling presentation and
> removed any sympathy I ever had for anonymous sperm donors, and pretty
> much for the whole third-party donor IVF process.