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Sperm donors father huge 'families'
名人捐精受捧儿女成群

An international norm places the ceiling at 20 pregnancies from the same donor.

An international norm places the ceiling at 20 pregnancies from the same donor.
Experts are increasingly concerned about lax rules for sperm donors in the U.S. and Canada where some men have fathered dozens of children, AP reported. 美国和加拿大对捐精者的规定宽松,有些捐赠者已经有了几十个孩子,这令专家们愈加担忧。
Unlike in some countries such as France and Britain, there are no laws in either Canada or the United States officially limiting the number of children who can be born from a single donor. 据美联社报道,与法国和英国不同,加拿大和美国都没有官方的法律条文来规定一名捐精者最多可以孕育多少个孩子。
An international norm places the ceiling at 20 pregnancies from the same donor. In Denmark, the limit on a single donor is 25 births. And most sperm banks set their own regulations. But the rules are not always respected. 某国际条款将其上限定为20个,丹麦定为25个,而绝大多数精子银行都是自行规定,不过总有打破规矩的时候。

Some families try to create a "designer baby" by carefully choosing the donor from a catalog. The practice has meant some of these star donors have now left a huge and at times overwhelming legacy.

(China.org.cn October 11, 2011)

有些人家为了生个“品质优良的婴儿”,从捐精者登记册中精挑细选。这就使很多有名的捐精者有了一大批、甚至无法计数的后代。

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