Surrogacy and Egg Donatn For Gay Men - FAQs

Contents:

• WHY GAY MEN AND OTHER GROUPS ARE BANNED OM DONATG SPERM
• FDA SET TO BAN GAY MEN AS SPERM DONORS
• NEW L FOR GAY SPERM DONORS TO BE TRODUCED US
• MAN WHO WANTED TO BE A SPERM DONOR TO HELP BLACK AND LGBTQ FAI SCRIB SHOCK AT RECEIVG REJECTN EMAIL BEE HE'S GAY, REPORT SAYS
• THE FDA'S LSER-KNOWN INSULT: A BAN ON GAY SPERM DONORS
• NEW RUL ON SPERM DONATNS BY GAYS
• FAY BUILDG FOR GAY MEN FAQS

WHY GAY MEN AND OTHER GROUPS ARE BANNED OM DONATG SPERM

The reason: He checked a box for beg gay, and Food and Dg Admistratn regulatns prohib anonymo sperm donatns om men who have had sex wh men the past five years. A Washgton Post analysis found Black sperm donors reprent ls than 2 percent of all sperm donors at the untry’s four largt a gay Black man, Roach-Carter said he chose to donate sperm part to aid other LGBTQ upl tryg to build fai.

Seattle Sperm Bank said turned away a “really great ndidate” the sprg bee he disclosed he was gay. To the dismay of gay-rights activists, the Food and Dg Admistratn is about to implement new l remendg that any man who has engaged homosexual sex the prev five years be barred om servg as an anonymo sperm FDA has rejected lls to scrap the provisn, sistg that gay men llectively pose a higher-than-average risk of rryg the AIDS vis. Crics acce the FDA of stigmatizg all gay men rather than adoptg a screeng procs that foc on high-risk sexual behavr by any would-be donor, gay or straight.

“Unr the l, a heterosexual man who had unprotected sex wh HIV-posive prostut would be OK as a donor one year later, but a gay man a monogamo, safe-sex relatnship is not OK unls he’s been celibate for five years, ” said Leland Traiman, director of a clic Alameda, Calif., that seeks gay sperm donors. Although there is disagreement over whether the FDA guile regardg gay men will have the force of law, most doctors and clics are expected to observe . It is likely to affect some lbian upl who want a child and prefer to e a gay man’s sperm for artificial sematn.

FDA SET TO BAN GAY MEN AS SPERM DONORS

“There’s a steadily creasg trend of heterosexual transmissn of HIV, and yet the FDA still has this notn that you protect people by puttg gay men out of the pool.

NEW L FOR GAY SPERM DONORS TO BE TRODUCED US

Prospective donors — gay or straight — would be rejected if they had engaged unprotected sex the prev 12 months wh an HIV-posive person, an illegal dg er, or “an dividual of unknown HIV stat outsi of a monogamo relatnship.

MAN WHO WANTED TO BE A SPERM DONOR TO HELP BLACK AND LGBTQ FAI SCRIB SHOCK AT RECEIVG REJECTN EMAIL BEE HE'S GAY, REPORT SAYS

”But an FDA spokwoman ced FDA documents suggtg that officials felt the broar excln was pnt even if affected gay men who practice safe sex. 'You n't be too reful'Many doctors and fertily clics already have been rejectg gay sperm donors, cg the pendg FDA l or existg regulatns of the Amerin Society for Reproductive Medice. ”However, some sperm banks, notably California, have weled gay donors.

The director of one of them, Alice Ruby of the Oakland-based Sperm Bank of California, said her staff had veloped procr for intifyg gay men wh an acceptably low risk of men are a major donor source at Traiman’s Rabow Flag sperm bank, and he said that practice would ntue spe the new l.

THE FDA'S LSER-KNOWN INSULT: A BAN ON GAY SPERM DONORS

'Directed' gay sperm donors OKThe FDA l do not prohib gay men om servg as “directed” sperm donors.

If a woman wishg to bee pregnant knows a gay man and asks that he provi sperm for artificial sematn, a clic uld provi that service even if the man had engaged sex wh other men wh five years. However, Traiman said some lbian upl do not have a gay iend they know and tst well enough to be the blogil father of their child, and would th prefer an anonymo Deborah Cohan, an obstetrics and gynelogy stctor at the Universy of California, San Francis, said some lbians prefer to receive sperm om a gay donor bee they feel such a man would be more receptive to the ncept of a fay head by a same-sex uple. Black sperm donors reprent ls than 2 percent of all sperm donors at the untry’s four largt cryobanks, but that don’t stop Black men — pecially gay men — om gettg Washgton Postrecently lved to a story about TreVghn Roach-Carter, who was rejected by the FDA at the Sperm Bank of California for checkg a box for beg gay.

NEW RUL ON SPERM DONATNS BY GAYS

”Acrdg to Jaime Shamonki, the chief medil officer at the California Cryobank, the untry’s largt, only around 1 percent of applints actually make through the highly selective tailed procs vers men between ag 18 and 39, who mt be at least 5-foot-7, and favors donors wh higher the FDA has lifted some rtrictns over the past two s, the ban on gay men has remaed place sce 2005. Men that have had homosexual sex wh the five years prr to them wantg to make an anonymo sperm donatn will be prevented om dog so, as the FDA says that gay men are... Men that have had homosexual sex wh the five years prr to them wantg to make an anonymo sperm donatn will be prevented om dog so, as the FDA says that gay men are llectively more likely to be HIV (human immunoficiency vis)-posive than other men.

Crics acce the FDA of stigmatisg gay men rather than puttg place a screeng procs that foc on high-risk sexual behavur by any potential donors, gay or straight.

FAY BUILDG FOR GAY MEN FAQS

Gay rights groups have nmned the new regulatns, sayg that they are discrimatory and would be would be difficult to enforce. Ronald Johnson, associate executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, said the regulatns lacked scientific mer: ' is bad science bee jects a false sense of secury and the imprsn the ernment is dog somethg, when fact they are not takg the more effective way to do proper screeng and protectn', he said.

He add that 'we feel that there are aquate and reliable screeng procr that ought to be place rather than a blanket le that discrimat agast sexually active gay men as a whole tegory'. Leland Traiman, director of Rabow Flag Health Servic, a sperm bank based California, said: 'Unr the l, a heterosexual man who had unprotected sex wh HIV-posive prostut would be OK as a donor one year later, but a gay man a monogamo, safe-sex relatnship is not OK unls he's been celibate for five years'.