Sperm Donation

Sperm donation is the provision by a man of his sperm with the intention that it be used in the artificial insemination or other “fertility treatment” of one or more women who are not his sexual partners in order that they may become pregnant by him. Where pregnancies go to full term, the sperm donor will be the biological father of every baby born from his donations. 

Sperm donation enables a man to father a child for third-party women and is therefore categorized as a form of third-party reproduction. 

The process of inseminating a woman with the sperm of a donor to enable her to have a baby is known as donor insemination (DI). 

Sperm may be donated by the donor directly to the intended recipient woman or through a sperm bank or fertility clinic.