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April 10, 2012
Known donors and the courts
The Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear an appeal to a paternity ruling from the Quebec Court of Appeal. The Quebec Court ruled a sperm provider has paternity rights to a child he conceived with an ex-girlfriend who, it seems, had asked him to be a known “sperm donor.”
Effectively, the Supreme Court upheld this ruling. This has significant implications for women who use known sperm donors for reproduction.
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March 13, 2011Known sperm donors
About once every week or so we get asked if we can help someone conceive with a known sperm donor. We can and we do.
The vast majority of our single women, lesbian couples, heterosexual couples use anonymous donor sperm from a sperm bank. Some people, however, want to use sperm from someone they know.