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...child on her own three years ago, she had to grapple with the unusual logistics her situation posed. After deciding that a sperm donation from a close, married male friend did not feel right, the 33-year-old hospital administrator from Georgetown, Texas, began to imagine her ideal donor in the parlance of personal ads: "Single white female seeks intelligent, sensitive, funny man, preferably tall, with above-average IQ, for insemination--with no strings attached...
...Many of these women want as much information as possible about their children's provenance, so they can pass it on to them later. "It's become very consumer driven and competitive in the past 10 years particularly, as women have rightfully taken over the position of selecting their donors," says Dr. Charles Sims, medical director of California Cryobank, the largest sperm bank in the country. "In the past, the primary concern was safety. [But now] it's not just 'I want a healthy baby' but 'What sort of human being is this donor...
...fact, Mr. Genetic Right comes in all sizes, colors, styles and attitudes. In addition to the basics--hair and eye color, weight and race--extensive "donor profiles" may provide essays from a donor to future offspring and denote such details as religion, blood type, favorite foods, hobbies, colors, whether the donor has successfully got anyone pregnant, which film actor the donor resembles, how optimistic his grandparents were and a family medical history going back three generations...
...Once this plan was revealed, the public outcry was harsh: Healy faced a severe dressing-down before a congressional committee just days after leaving office. Despite Healy's argument that the Liberty Fund would go to worthwhile causes, many felt the Red Cross had deliberately misled donors by using September 11th in a bait-and-switch ploy. Monday, the organization offered to return money to any donor who felt deceived by the fund-raising; there?s no word on whether anyone?s taken them up on their offer...
...Tuesday, seems to derive from his public criticisms of Harvard. This is sadly consistent with the widespread capitulation to mainstream politics so evident at Harvard this fall. That Reeves has chosen to voice principled objections to his alma mater on issues like the living wage, community relations and questionable donor sources suggests that he has used his political power to expose some of Harvard’s more egregious flaws. That The Crimson chose to call for his dismissal because of this confirms that it is as out of touch with the people of Cambridge as the institution whose name...