the blog quebecois

CBC:

Sperm stocks in Canada are significantly down since the federal government made it illegal to pay men for the donations, and the supply of sperm imported from the U.S. will eventually be cut off, Health Canada says.

It has been illegal to buy sperm or eggs since 2004. The change was part of Canada's new reproductive technology law, which also forbids payment for surrogacy and regulates stem cell research.

There used to be 40 sperm banks in Canada, but that has dwindled to two. It seems without a $75 payment, most Canadian men are not interested in donating to heterosexual couples, single women looking to get pregnant or lesbian couples seeking sperm.

Gee, what a shocker. Who else didn't see this coming? Certainly not the geniuses of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, responsible for these new rules.

Assembled in 1989 by the Mulroney Government, the Commission was stacked for the most part with doctrinaire feminists. (Also Maureen McTeer, whose main qualification was that she was apparently tired of bossing Joe around.)

This struck me as odd, since the most interest feminists ever show in children is when they can feed them into government-approved indoctrination centres or abortion-clinic garburators.

Silly me. When they weren't at each others' throats and filing lawsuits hither and yon, the Commissioners came up with the brilliant solution of abolishing children altogether. Too bad for the lesbians, but that's the way the coochie crumbles.

Britain also faces a shortage of sperm donors, but the issue there is not compensation.

Rather, British men are reluctant to donate because of a legislative change that allows children conceived with donated sperm or eggs to learn the name of the donor when they turn 18.

"I think what people worry about is somebody going to come to see me in 10 years and start demanding money," said Mark Jackson of Moss, England, who donates to infertile couples.

"Any donor doesn't need to worry because it is stated in law that you are not the guardian of this child, and you don't owe any money to this child."

Silly you. The law is whatever a judge decides it is on any particular day. And one day -- count on it -- a judge will decide that you owe 18+ years of child support, with interest; plus damages for "emotional abandonment"; and probably a bit of alimony too.

I think it's time for men to discover a new hobby. I'd recommend urban warfare.