A Dutch sperm donor, Jonathan N. was sued for not respecting the limit that Dutch fertility clinics allow of 25 children born per donor.
According to the Dutch foundation Donorkindman is attributed at least 550 children in the Netherlands and other countries. The organization, which is dedicated to meeting sons and brothers born through sperm donation, points out that the man even offered his services internationally over the Internet.
Since 2017, the Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has placed Jonathan N. on the blacklist from Dutch clinics, noting that the man had 102 children with the mediation of 11 clinicsso Jonathan began to offer his services through the internet.
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The Dutch fertility clinics put the limit on 25 children or help 12 families per donor to prevent the occurrence involuntary incest to adulthood and so that there are not so many siblings in different families, since it can cause psychological problems in the descendants.
The man was sued by the Donorkind Foundation and by one of the inseminated mothers named Eva, who pointed out that at the time of the process, the man he said he had fathered no more than 25 children.
“If I had known that he had already had more than a hundred children, I would never have chosen him. When I think about the consequences that this could have for my son, my body is left with a bad body and uncertainty about his future enters: how many more children will there be? The only way to stop it is take it to court”Eva pointed out.
Donorkind’s attorney, Mark de Hek, said the donor is acting illegally by “put your reproductive drive first”, for which he requests the destruction of his sperm stored in the clinics.
Dutch doctors keep the sperm donor anonymitywhich means that the number of children per donor is not known with certainty.
“It seems unethical to us that the anonymity of the donor is maintained, and that they can also operate abroad”, said Ties van der Meer, president of Donorkind. According to him, this anonymity does not take children’s rights into account.
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The Donorkind Foundation has identified at least ten Dutch gynecologists who have used their own semen without the knowledge of women who wanted to get pregnant in fertility clinics.
