CANBERRA, KOMPAS.com – A man who is nicknamed a pedonor sperm most productive at Australia is being investigated after fathering 23 babies in a year, reports Daily Mail the end of last November.
Alan Phan (40), resident of Brisbane, Australia originally planned to donate sperm 9 times but then he began to be unable to refuse some women’s requests.
Phan is hereditary Vietnam initially thought about donating sperm after he and his wife Merlyn visited a fertility clinic while trying to get pregnant for their second child.
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At that time, Phan decided to donate sperm, and to his knowledge, Phan was the only man of Vietnamese descent who donated sperm in Australia.
Because Phan’s sperm success rate is so high, women who need children queue to get the man’s sperm.
Phan later said that his sperm donation was a ‘hobby’, he often played sports, took up to 20 vitamins and did not have sex to ensure the quality of his sperm.
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On one occasion, Phan had donated sperm to 3 women in 1 night, 2 of them were successful.
The Victorian Assisted Reproductive Authority (VARTA) is now investigating Phan for exceeding the donor limit.
Chief Executive Louise Johnson said he had taken steps to ensure that no family was used anymore sperm donor belonging to the man.
“This is a rare incident. We monitor the information that comes to our attention through the clinic but if someone operates outside the clinic, it is very difficult to monitor, “Johnson was quoted as saying 7 News.
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“My message to women is to be careful of men who offer to donate informally. They are not protected legally or healthily for fear of infection. “
As a result of the incident, a 30-year-old woman was threatened with an embryo because she had used Phan’s sperm donor.
Johnson said, “Once the care clinic finds out that more than 10 families are formed from 1 donor, they cannot continue to use that donor.”
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