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Dating site offering 'beautiful baby' virtual egg and sperm bank

A controversial dating website, with a strict ban on ugly and fat people, has launched what it's calling a 'beautiful baby service', a virtual egg and sperm bank for people who want to have attractive babies.
This same website kicked out 5,000 users in January because other members signaled that they became too chubby celebrating Christmas and the New Year.

Critics are questioning the ethics of the site but those running it are making no apologies.

Sperm Donation - A Pennsylvania judge issued a ruling about a year ago that stated that a woman and her child can move forward on a case to sue a sperm bank under product liability law. Well, the appellate court has since reversed that ruling as follows:

Shannon P. Duffy
The Legal Intelligencer
April 06, 2010

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202447538837

Genetic defects in sperm from a sperm bank cannot form the basis for a products liability suit, a federal appeals court has ruled, because allowing such a claim would be tantamount to recognizing a claim of "wrongful life."

Some people are forced to use a sperm donor for whatever reason. Please share your stories of how you made your choice, whether the donor is someone you know or a donor from a sperm bank. There are drawbacks and benefits to either decision..

Linda

KTLA.com reports that California Cryobank announced Tuesday that it has started posting photos of celebrities who resemble their donors to give prospective clients a better idea of what their potential offspring might look like.

If you are thinking about donor sperm insemination as a way to build your family, The National Infertility Association says you should consider the following questions:

• Does the clinic have its own sperm bank? If not, which sperm banks does the practice or clinic use?
• Does the clinic provide a list of sperm banks?

If the clinic provides the donor sperm, ask the clinic the following questions:

California is a fantastic place to experience surrogacy. Women can become a parent by going to a sperm bank and undergoing artificial insemination. Men use a surrogate, either through artificial insemination or through two women, one to donate an egg, and the other to serve as surrogate.

Popular surrogacy agency for the gay and lesbian community - Growing Generations - recently announced the launch of Fertility Cryobank on its blog. Fertility Cryobank is one of the few sperm banks in the country to provide recent photos and a comprehensive genetic evaluation for each donor - and it's the only sperm bank in the world to provide videos of every donor, as well as rigorous psychological and IQ testing.