sperm donation
Reproductive cell gift
Sperm donation is the provision of semen by a man for use in artificial insemination or fertility treatments.
The donor may be anonymous or known to the recipient.
Sperm banks collect, screen, and store donations: They conceived through sperm donation after years of trying.
The practice raises legal questions about parental rights and donor anonymity.
- cryopreservationLow-temperature biological preservation
- assisted reproductionMedical conception methods
- genetic heritageInherited biological information
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
- IVFLaboratory-aided conception method
embryo transfer · half-siblings · biological father · identity · stigma · fertility treatment · reproductive technology · male infertility · parenthood · genetic counseling · fertility clinics · sample · screening · frozen · clinic · vial · biological · privacy
- reproductionreproduction, birth, baby, egg, pregnancy
- bioethicsbioethics, medical ethics, genetic engineering, beneficence, non-maleficence
- fertilityfertility, fecundity, infertility, conception, reproduction
- reproductive healthpregnancy, infertility, childbirth, male infertility, fertility rates
- Cultivation Methodscross-pollination, selective breeding, self-pollination, pollination, organic fertilizer
- propagationcloning, seed starting, grafting, cuttings, seedlings