A case before the Kansas Supreme Court has become a key test of the rights of sperm donors who want to be involved with their offspring over the objection of the children's mothers.
"The dispute, which has drawn national attention, involves a single woman, identified in court papers only as S.H., who gave birth to twins in May 2005 after being inseminated with the sperm of a friend, identified as D.H.
After the mother made it clear that she did not intend to share parenting, D.H. sued to establish paternity. He lost in a trial court because of a Kansas law that says the donor of sperm provided for artificial insemination is not the legal father of the child unless the donor and mother agree to it in writing."
This sounds crazy, but is a real problem.. at some point sperm donors are going to come along that would like to know the children that were born of their seed. The problem is that the majority of people donating to sperm banks are doing it for the money or to anonymously add a piece of themselves to the future of the world, right? Who in their right mind becomes a sperm donor to have a child???
I guess if you had no other options to procreate (which is pretty sad) this would be a route you could take, anonymously father a child and then attempt contact once your sample has been used but it's just not what I believe sperm banks are for. In my opinion, you drop it off, it's gone - and will be used to help an unfortunate couple that cannot have kids on their own... and you're out. That's it.
But I agree that a program designed specifically for donors that do want some sort of parental rights could be set up so that both parties know what they are doing before hand which would eliminate the entire problem.
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