Fair fax sperm bank

Carolyn George admits that looks were a top priority when she went about choosing a sperm donor to help conceive her second child. She wanted someone with blond hair and green eyes, features her ex-boyfriend had passed down to their year-old son, Noah. From Fairfax Cryobank in Fairfax, Virginia, one of the country's largest sperm banks, she chose Donor for his coloring and also for his health. Asked on his donor profile about his history of disease, from heart problems and cancer to allergies and eczema, he mentioned none. Her baby, named Ethan George, was born in April with a thatch of red hair and blue eyes. He couldn't have resembled his brother—or his brown-eyed, brown-haired mother—any less.

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Fairfax Cryobank and Cryogenic Labs CLI are still refusing to give former sperm donors and adult donor conceived people access to their donor numbers. This prohibits families from making mutual consent contact. This prohibits the sharing of medical and genetic infotmation amongst genetic relatives. This takes away the opportunity from many donors who were never properly educated or counseled about donor anonymity, from changing their minds and reaching out to make mutual consent contact with the children they helped to create.

A lawyer who leaned on a Virginia sperm bank to help him get through school recently learned he has dozens of offspring. For three years while attending law school at George Mason University, year-old Boston attorney Ben Seisler donated sperm at Fairfax Cryobank, he revealed for a new Style Network documentary. He planned to stay anonymous but learned of a website that connects offspring and siblings to each other and their sperm donors. Michelle Ottey, of Fairfax Cryobank. Fairfax, for example, has a limitation of family units per donor.