Tag: "sperm donors"

Sorry, Cryo-Kids, This is <em>The New Normal</em>. "Get Over It."
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Sorry, Cryo-Kids, This is The New Normal. “Get Over It.”

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In Must Not See TV news, last night NBC debuted its latest attempt at humor: The New Normal, a 30 minute sitcom about a young, single mother who agrees to become a gay couple’s surrogate mother. In the trailer for The New Normal, there is a scene in which the gay couple is speaking to someone […]

‘Get over it’: Children of Anonymous Sperm Donors Met with Hostility and Ridicule
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‘Get over it’: Children of Anonymous Sperm Donors Met with Hostility and Ridicule

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For children of anonymous sperm donors yearning for a connection to their biological father, the world can be an unwelcome place. Instead of meeting compassion, many say that society treats their pain with a dismissive or even hostile attitude – a rift caused by lack of awareness as much as by the brute force of […]

"Reproductive Rights" and the Brave New United States
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“Reproductive Rights” and the Brave New United States

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When I talk to my fellow Americans about biotechnology, they have this idea that all the bad stuff will happen in places like China and that the horrors of Huxley’s Brave New World will never happen here.  Cloning, human genetic engineering and the like will happen somewhere else, but not in the good ol’ USA. […]