Time
Orlando, FL, - Survey data from sperm bank customers show that more users still prefer anonymous donation to known donation and that many fail to report the results of their sperm use back to the sperm bank, making the number of pregnancies very difficult to track.
Researchers from the Genetics and IVF Institute surveyed thousands of their customers over the last three years. They report that demand for anonymous donation remains high, with 38% of respondents saying they preferred anonymous donors, 20% preferred identified donors and 42% were willing to use either.
When asked about reporting back to the sperm bank, over 35% of the respondents indicated they had not or did not plan to report the results of the use of the sperm back to the banks. This result points out the challenges of tracking the number of babies born to any single sperm donor.
“This study illuminates the intrusiveness to patients that will have to occur to track reproductive outcomes. At present, reproductive privacy appears to be extremely important to many patients and efforts to reduce it are often viewed as intrusive,” said Roger Lobo, MD, President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
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