From China Press's Column " Health " on 12-11-03, it was reported that last July, an Australian sperms
donor was ordered by the High Court that he had to bear the cost of maintenance and education for
the baby who was born.
In general, a sperms donor is not required to be responsible for the maintenance of the child born. However
the Court ruled that this case was exceptional. The reason is that this sperms donor did not use high
tech technique to donate sperms rather than that he used the traditional primitive method.
The man named "ND" accepted a request from a lesbian named "BM" to donate sperms to her and as a result , a normal baby was born. The baby is taken care of only by the mother.
"ND" and "BM" had signed an agreement to specify that " ND " was to donate sperms only and need not to bear the cost of bringing up the baby. However the High court of Australia did not recognise this agreement and ordered " ND " must bear the cost of bringing up the baby. The high court expressed that the process of sperms donation in general must comply to methods such as test tube collection and artificial insemination.
But because the two were using a traditonal original sexual method of sperms donation, the donor must bear the responsibilty of a father.
Organisations for the male human rights and lesbian protested the judgement.
In a related subject, there exists a website in England http://www.mannotincluded.com where women could purchase sperms and get themselves pregnant D.I.Y. The website acts as an agent only and the price is between RM 4800 and 7200 only.
Again, in a related subject:-
After an artificial insemination, a woman was heard saying:" Is this the way you get pregnant this day, I still prefer the original traditional method! "