Sperm donation

Counseling of donors

This is an important stage of sperm donation. Counseling provides an opportunity for the donors to discuss any concerns about donation and for the counselors to ensure that they fully understand the implications of donating their sperm. Several points are worth considering and may be discussed in counseling sessions.

• All prospective donors should be offered adequate counseling, but they are not obliged to accept it.
• Sperm donors should be comfortable with their decision and in donating their sperm they must renounce all rights to them.
• The woman who gave birth to the child is the mother of the child.
• A child born as a result of sperm donation has the right to obtain non-identifiable information about the donor at age 18 years or earlier if contemplating marriage.
• Until now, men donating sperm have remained anonymous. However, recent changes in the UK mean that children born as a result of donation provided by donors that registered from April 1st 2005 will be able to access information about the identity of their donor at the age of 18.
• The donor should be informed of the social, psychological and legal uncertainty and the risk that a birth may not occur.
• The sperm donor must accept that he may have genetic offspring's whose existence or characteristics will not be disclosed.
• Sperm donor should feel free to withdraw from the program at any time without the threat of financial penalty or fear of recrimination.
• In the United Kingdom, The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is required by law to keep on its own register information about individuals who donate sperm and patients who receive donated sperm.
• Donor sperm will not normally be used once the number of children believed to have been born from them has reached ten, in order to decrease the chance of offspring intermarriage.

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