They are called “Mega doors.” In the Netherlands, at least 85 sperm donors have caused more than 25 children in fertility clinics, according to the National Organization of Gynecology and Obstetrics, informed on Monday, April 14, April 14.
In fact, several clinics have violated the sperm rules established for several years. These clinics have also exchanged sperm without the necessary documents or without donors being informed.
Since 1992, a law aimed at reducing the risk of involuntary incest and consanguinity should have prohibited donors to generate children in the Netherlands. A complex law that will be applied in view of the strict measures established on the protection of privacy.
The donation limit was reduced to 12
“In the name of the entire profession, we want to apologize. We did not do things as they should have done,” said gynecologist Marieke Schoonenberg in the Nueuwsuur television program.
In 2018, the donation limit was reduced to 12, but the National Donor Registry, with a code system that guarantees that the sperm of the same donor cannot be used in more than 12 conceptions, only entered into force.
“Therefore, we now know, for the first time, the exact number of children per donor,” said Marieke Schoonenberg. In fact, at least 85 “mega donors” have broken this level of donation since 2004.
Most of them were organic parents of 26 to 40 children, said Marieke Schoonenberg, although some were between 50 and 75 years old. Among them, there were at least 10 fertility specialists, including one, Jan Karbaat, which illegally generated at least 81 children in their clinic.
This result, described as “medical calamity” for Van der Meer ties, a member of a Dutch Foundation that helps children find their donor, could mean the probable existence of at least 3,000 children in the Netherlands who have 25 or more brothers.
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Consequently, children and some of the donors would inevitably suffer greater stress, according to the ties are der Meer, especially due to the risk of involuntary incest.
According to the ties they go mer, the children who gave birth to these sperm donors can find several DNA problems when they are large. “As soon as they begin to frequent someone, they will have to do DNA tests to make sure they don’t go out with a close father,” he said.
On the government side, the Dutch Ministry of Health said it would inform the deputies of the results this week. At the same time, the Association of Dutch gynecologists and obstetricians urged mothers, donors and children to contact their fertility clinics.
Source: BFM TV
