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Cryos has benefited from a bewildering patchwork of European rules governing sperm donation. In Britain, for example, the law dictates that a single donor can father only 10 children. In Denmark, whose population of 5 million is less than one-tenth of Britain's, the limit is 25. In Austria and Sweden, laws allow children conceived through sperm donation to seek the identity of their parents when the children reach age 18. Denmark, however, has more sweeping protection of donor anonymity: Cryos does not maintain a record of its donors' names, using a coded identification number instead. According to Schou...
Cryos does not maintain the exhaustive profiles of donor characteristics used by U.S. sperm banks. The company limits its data to such fundamentals as hair and eye color, height and ethnic classification, which, says Schou, is the main difference from what he calls the "couture style" U.S. system of merchandising sperm. He is critical of the U.S. reliance on "positive eugenics," his term for the penchant for selecting donors based on detailed genetic, physical and psychological profiles...
...disease and severe genetic defects only to the extent that an average couple would. On the other hand, to supply a global marketplace, he is having to bend his principles. Cryos now supplies a few U.S. clinics with sperm, and in those cases has begun to provide more extensive donor profiles. To service increasing demand for non-Scandinavian ethnic types, Schou cooperates with a handful of overseas sperm banks...
Cryos appears likely to continue to dominate Europe's commercial sperm-donor industry, and its growing success is provoking some criticism. Charles Sims, a clinical pathologist who co-founded California Cryobank, the best-known U.S. sperm bank, thinks Cryos' claims of market dominance are misplaced. "Sperm is not a commodity," he says. "It's not something you're selling like aspirin." But Ole Schou shrugs off those views. He is passionate about his company's mission to help thousands of would-be parents. In fact, he and his wife are about to become first-time parents--the old-fashioned...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum, which is physically connected to the Fogg, purchased the painting from the owners for a reduced price. The painting's value is estimated at $4 million. It was purchased with funds from the friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum and an additional anonymous donor...