My problem with sperm donation

This probably seems like a stupid issue to pick on. I should first clarify that I'm not going so far as to say that it's wrong for someone to go through a sperm donor. However, I have serious concerns with it, and here's why.

The idea behind finding a sperm donor is to find the perfect "specimen" (or donor or whatever you call them). The donor gives his profile...height, weight, health condition of his past three generations in his family, job, education level, etc. This is supposed to help you design the child of your choice.

The women who went through sperm donor 3066 decided to meet one another. Apparently two of them had kids with autism and two had kids with signs of autism. This, of course, would NOT be a "child of your choice."

So, what happens when you don't get the "child of your choice"?

Well, here's what happens.

"Pretty much you're thinking this person has a perfect medical history," said Jorgenson, who lives in Sacramento, Calif. "And then later I find out that some of the other siblings have other disabilities that are or are not attributed to the donor. I wouldn't have chose him had I known this had existed."
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The mothers who used sperm from 3066 said they want more information from sperm banks, not just for themselves but for other mothers trying to figure out why their child is falling ill or acting differently.

"They want to know: `Why did this happen to my child?'" Jorgenson said.

Um, it happened because your specimen child is human. If you want to know more about your specimen's child's biological ancestors, you'd have to have you specimen child the old fashioned way.

I have a problem when we reduce our kids to statistics. It reminds me of Gattaca, and I don't like it at all.