This morning I caught the Today show segment where Campbell Brown interviewed (1) the Michigan doctor treating the 5 kids all conceived from the same donor and (2) a NYC area Reproductive Endocrinologist about how the kids received the defective gene from their common donor.
Ms. Brown dutifully asked the Michigan doctor if whether he knew if the sperm bank had tried finding the original donor to which he answered yes. At that point she SHOULD HAVE asked the RE if he believed their should be central registry where the sperm bank used could centrally note that this guys's sperm shoudl never be used again. Yes he has left Michigan but what if he decides to donate again in CA. If this disease is not normally screened for we will never know if he donates again until more kids pop up with this same disease.
WE NEED SOME CENTRAL REGISTRY WHERE PROBLEM DONORS CAN BE ACCOUNTED FOR SO OTHER BANKS CAN CONFIRM THAT THE DONOR HAS NOT HAD PROBLEMS ELSEWHERE.
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