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A sperm bank takes a number of steps to ensure the health and quality of the sperm which it supplies and it will inform customers of the checks which it undertakes, providing relevant information about individual donors. A sperm bank will usually guarantee the quality and number of motile sperm available in a sample after thawing. They will try ...
Sperm banks can vary widely, not only in terms of price, but of practice (i.e. who is allowed to donate sperm, how many times, etc.) and can offer a variety of services. Major U.S. sperm banks include Fairfax Cryobank, California Cyrobank, Cryos International, Seattle Sperm bank, and Xytex, and many others.
Robert Klark Graham (June 9, 1906 – February 13, 1997) was an American eugenicist and businessman who made millions by developing shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses and who later founded the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank for geniuses, in the hope of implementing a eugenics program.
California Cryobank is a sperm bank in California, United States, one of the two biggest in the world. There are offices in Palo Alto , Los Angeles , Cambridge , Massachusetts , and New York . According to the company in 2018, they had about 600 donors and 75,000 registered live births since 1977. [ 1 ]
Cryos International is a sperm and egg bank in Aarhus, Denmark. It was founded in 1987 by Ole Schou. [1] [2] The bank has an outpost in Florida in the United States. Both countries allow anonymity of donors. [3] The bank delivers to more than 100 countries. [4]
Robert Graham managed the bank until his death in February 1997 and the responsibilities were passed to Floyd Kimble, a businessman from Ohio who had shown interest in the bank. At the time of Graham's death, the bank claimed to have produced 217 children, none of whom from sperm donated from Graham's initial focus, Nobel Prize winners.
There have been numerous cases of a healthcare provider fraudulently substituting their own sperm for donor sperm, resulting in pregnancy and birth. [4] Quincy Fortier, a fertility specialist in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the early 1960s, impregnated female patients with his own sperm leading to 26 children during his 40-year practice.
The Sperm Bank of California (TSBC) is a nonprofit sperm bank in Berkeley, California. It was founded by Barbara Raboy in 1982. [1] It has a program through which adults conceived from a sperm donation can contact the donor, which was first such program offered by a sperm bank. Many of the donors at the sperm bank take part in this program.