Sperm donation is the provision by a man of his sperm for use in artificial insemination or other fertility treatment of a woman who is not his sexual partner; while the donor is the biological father of any resulting child, he typically relinquishes all legal rights and parental status. Sperm may be donated directly to recipients or through a sperm bank or fertility clinic, and pregnancy is usually achieved through intracervical or intrauterine insemination or, less commonly, in vitro fertilization. Its primary recipients are single women and lesbian couples, though heterosexual couples facing male infertility may also use it, and sperm banks and clinics are often subject to regulation covering donor anonymity, limits on the number of offspring from one donor, and the rights and responsibilities of donors and recipients.
Facts
Origin YearWilliam Pancoast's 1884 procedure at Jefferson Medical College is the first recorded donor insemination that may have resulted in a birth; the source itself hedges with may be the first rather than stating it outright. Connections
Associated With
Sperm donation involves collection procedures performed within urology.
Sources
1. Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationHistory section, Pancoast paragraphQuote, History section, Pancoast paragraph
In 1884, Professor William Pancoast of Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College performed an insemination on the wife of a sterile Quaker merchant, which may be the first insemination procedure that resulted in the birth of a child.
Sperm donation (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_donation, lead sectionQuote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_donation, lead section
Sperm donation is the provision by a male of his sperm with the intention that it be used in the artificial insemination or other "fertility treatment" of one or more females who are not his sexual partners in order that they may become pregnant.
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