Recently, politicians in Quebec, Canada, began to call for a limit on the number of donations from sperm donors, which began with a documentary film detailing such a shocking fact:
In Quebec, two of the three sperm donors traded through Facebook are men who carry genes for serious genetic diseases, and they have already given birth to more than 600 babies through sperm donation.
Noovo's documentary titled "Père 100 Enfants" covers this issue. There is currently no cap on the number of donations from sperm donors in Canada, and Luc Boileau, Quebec's director of public health, announced after watching the documentary that he is in discussions with Health Canada about whether to set such a limit.
The documentary found that two of the sperm donors were carrying a genetic variant of tyrosinemia, which causes liver disease. If one parent carries this defective gene, the child may inherit it. It is not known whether any of the children born through the donations of these men have the disease.
Quebec's health minister, Christian Dubé, said the documentary revealed a "public health problem" and he planned to meet with Boileau to explore a "solution" to the problem.
Of course, people's primary concern is why genetically defective sperm is circulating in the market.
Opposition leader Pascal Bérubé strongly called for regulation: "This is a very serious matter that means that thousands of people in Quebec are affected. We need to ask, how did they (the sperm with the genetic defect) get into the sperm bank? How did they manage to make so many donations, even online and social media? It's surprising. ”
According to reports, the three sperm donors contacted the recipients in a Facebook forum called "Parallel Universe," which is not regulated by the Canadian health authorities and is an illegal website.
However, the sperm donation group ran a lot of ads on sites such as Facebook, and many women reported clicking on online ads to get sperm by clicking on the pages of the website where they clicked on the online ads and then placed an order for sperm — all gray areas with regulatory urgency.
There are also some ethical secondary issues to this matter. Boileau said public health authorities want sperm donor children and recipient mothers to know who they are as biological fathers so they can avoid inadvertently starting a family.
CBC's record was initially reported by mothers who found that two men from the same family had donated a large amount of sperm, resulting in the birth of 10 related babies in towns not far apart.
Through mass sperm donation, the three men were able to produce more than 600 newborns of the same blood in Quebec. When these children grow up, they are at risk of "consanguineous marriage".
After the incident was exposed, a woman named Victoria Hill published a "horror story" about how she almost "got along" with her half-brother. Victoria tested her DNA on a whim, and unexpectedly discovered that her biological father was someone else, and it was finally confirmed that the fertility doctor had used donor sperm to help her conceive without telling her mother.
To her horror, she found out that she had more than 20 related "half-siblings" in the world, including her ex-boyfriend from high school. Victoria even recalled that there was a good chance she would have married him at the time.
At this time, the identities of the three men have not been disclosed.