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...becoming a donor involves more than just signing up. When asked what information Cryobank requires from potential donors, Fox responded, "Everything...
California Cryobank opened a branch office on Mass. Ave. between Harvard and MIT on Sept. 13. Since then, they've been announcing their intention to find "high quality sperm for artificial insemination," in newspaper advertisements on local college campuses including Tufts, Boston University, MIT and Harvard...
...Cryobank's clients are under the care of fertility doctors. Most of the clients are heterosexual couples who for one reason or another cannot conceive children by natural methods. "Only a small percent are single women," Fox said...
Anonymous insemination does raise a touchy issue: what to say when the child yearns to know who his or her father is. "They are not going to be happy being told their dad is No. 456," says Dr. Cappy Rothman, who heads the California Cryobank in Los Angeles. Some single mothers, sensitized by the related debate regarding adoption, want to carve out an option for their children now. The Sperm Bank of California in Oakland offers a new contract that, if signed by both sperm donor and mother, would allow a child access to his father's name upon turning...
...regularly attacked as racist. Says he: "I don't regard myself as a perfect human being or the ideal candidate, but I am endorsing Graham's concept of increasing the people at the top of the population." Steve Broder, who directs a Southern California sperm bank called Cryobank and is a former adviser to Graham, says he saw "three or maybe four" Nobelists donating to the depository. "I see nothing extraordinary in all this," he adds. "It's quite normal for potential mothers to come in and ask for sperm with a high...