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Monday July 8, 2002
U.K. SPERM MIX-UP GIVES WHITE COUPLE BLACK TWINS
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Canadian clinics also breaking rules
LONDON, England, July 8,2002 (LSN.ca) - A British white couple have had black twins after a mix-up at a National Health Service fertility clinic. The blunder is expected to lead to an ugly court battle over who are the legal parent -- since the clinic must have used a black man's sperm to fertilize the white mother's egg, or by the clinic implanting a black couple's already fertilized egg into the white woman. An NHS spokesman called it "a one in a million chance."
Meanwhile there are reports that safety rules are being violated on a large scale in Canada's sperm banks. Health Canada's new mandatory inspection system has found widespread failure to meet government testing requirements, with some donor semen released from quarantine because of "administrative errors."
Ironically, documents obtained by the Globe and Mail under Access to Information found that one Toronto clinic gave sperm from an over-age donor, who has likely been exposed to Hepatitis B, to a same-sex couple.
For Globe and Mail coverage of rules violations in Canadian sperm banks
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?current_row=3&tf=t...
For the British sperm mix-up see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/08/utwin.xml&sSheet...
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