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The combination of profiteering fertility corporations, an irresponsibly lax regulatory environment, and an incentive structure that enables these “mega-donors” has culminated in a widespread and still mounting social crisis—particularly for donor-conceived people who face risks that range from a lack of accurate medical history to ethical disasters like a heighten risk of accidental incest. An extremely unfortunate consequence of putting the work of creating future generations into the hands of a for-profit industry.
✏️ There’s basically no bounds for the dangers of for-profit industries and to which industries get exposed to it. Profit + lack of regulation + Harmful incentives = Mo money mo problems 🔗 View Highlight
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there is no entity keeping track of these births—donor-conceived births are still voluntarily reported—nor, for that matter, how many banks a single donor is going to. Keep in mind that even the cattle industry has multiple registries tracking the progeny and genetic material of individual cows to avoid inbreeding and track health concerns; figures are collected and must be reported to the public by government agencies. Humans are equally prone to the same health risks, but have nowhere near the same level of safeguards and oversight.
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The average payment per donation is [100](https://www.theworldeggandspermbank.com/how-much-do-sperm-donors-make/#:~:text=Does%20%E2%80%9CDonating%E2%80%9D%20Your%20Sperm%20Mean,it%20is%20safe%20and%20healthy.), and donations can be split into [2 to 8 vials on average](https://www.usdcc.org/2023/04/18/five-things-i-wish-id-known-before-donating-sperm/#:~:text=Sperm%20banks%20can%20split%20each,motivated%20to%20distribute%20them%20all.). Because, as mentioned, vials are selling at an average of 1,200 each, the industry makes a massive profit on each donation.
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Colorado’s law has already been amended with a bill developed by powerful players in the fertility industry that will serve to blunt the rights of donor-conceived people. Lobbyists and apologists are trying to argue that any regulation will suddenly make donated sperm no longer affordable to families (remember, they are setting these prices themselves). They’ve also claimed that donors will no longer want to donate, and (putting a cynical spin of social-justice concern on their efforts to protect their profits) that there will be less access for non-traditional families.
✏️ The same formula over and over. Any regulation is played off as dis-incentivizing the act, or making it more expensive, etc. Even though the banks make 100 times more profit (100 to pay for sperm and 10,000 sales out of it) and they’re the ones that set all the prices. This regulation will not “force” them to raise the price.. their greed will. 🔗 View Highlight