While the law limits the number of births per donor to 25, a Dutchman has quadrupled donations. France escapes these scandals.
A sperm donor in the Netherlands would be the biological father of 102 children, announced the Dutch Association of Gynecologists (NVOG) and the Association for Clinical Embryology (KLEM). This man is said to have four times more children than the law allows.
Indeed, Dutch law sets the number of children per donor at 25. It also obliges donors to make their donations in a single collection center. The man has therefore increased donations illegally and certainly in several centers of the country.
The associations also reported another donor. The latter would have donated his gametes in 11 different clinics.
Precedents
This scandal is far from the first in this northern European country. Last May, a former director of a sperm bank was accused of having deceived about 20 parents by replacing the sperm of donors they had chosen with his own.
For the two institutions, these dramatic situations could be avoided thanks to a national register of sperm donors.
In France, stricter legislation is supposed to prevent this kind of situation. First of all, the number of births has been limited to 10 per donor since 2004. In addition, men cannot donate in more than one collection center. The latter have software which makes it possible to “unmask” donors who would like to make donations across France.
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