Androlog Mail:
Sid Sarkar wrote:
>A woman, patient of a local physician, has requested insemination with a
>mixed "wash" preparation from her husband and brother-in-law.
Here in Western Australia this would be prohibited by law, and indeed from
the point of view of the child's interests deliberately introducing
paternity uncertainty would be ethically dubious. That's not to say that
there isn't considerable uncertainly in any case - estimates of false
paternity in various communities range up to 30% (see Baker and Bellis
"Human Sperm Competition" for references). I wonder what are the woman's
reasons for this rather odd request?
As an aside see http://walk.pci.on.ca/~dgilbert/ignobel/igs92-winners.html
where Dr. Cecil Jacobson of Washington DC, won the IgNobel prize for
Biology in 1992 for using his own semen for donor insemination (as many as
75 offspring!). I quote the prize citation "relentlessly generous sperm
donor, and prolific patriarch of sperm banking, for devising a simple,
single-handed method of quality control".
Dr Jim Cummins, Anatomy, Division of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences,
Murdoch University, Western Australia 6150
Tel +61-8-9360 2668 Fax +61-8-9310 4144
E mail cummins@central.murdoch.edu.au
http://numbat.murdoch.edu.au/spermatology/spermhp.html
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy." Goethe
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