http://ascology.com/news/green360/editorials-avenue/19900-Behold-the-Fluid-donor-father-with-150-kids.html

TALKING POINTS, - When Cynthia Daily decided to take the step of letting a Fluid donor father her child, little did she envisaged the potential consequences of such an action.


According to a New York times Article, she used a donor registry to find out that her Fluid donor has fathered over 150 kids with growing numbers too.

Experts are however taking a look at the potential threats such steps could cause such as an increased risk for rare genetic disorders and accidental Inbreeding. Experts are also calling on US regulators to regulate the donor-bank industry as done in several countries.

The advantages of Fluid donations are vast and wide in its own little capacity without doubt, although many infertile couples as well as those with disabilities could take consolation in such a medical system but at what cost?

Such systems are highly recognised within the ranks of medical institutions in Western and developed countries, but what potential threats (no matter how little) should developing countries like Nigeria be on the lookout for if and when such medical operations are carried out under our nose without any governmental institution caring to check into the 'Fluid donor industry'

According to the report, countries such as Sweden, Britain and France limits how many children a Fluid donor can father, but not the United States and not even a plan yet for such systematic procedures to be developed, checked, coordinated or monitored in Nigeria.

How then are we able to check into illegal practices such as ill-medical practices & child trafficking?

Laughable enough, Wendy Kramer, founder of the Donor Sibling Registry claims that only 20-40% of mothers register the child birth of Fluid donor children; the multi-million dollar questions in this part of the world are - who's monitoring such developments and at what regulations (voluntarily or involuntarily)? What guidelines are put in place and what are our medical practitioners saying to the government and the member public?

According to Kramer, many parents are however shocked to find out how many half siblings their children have (invisibly) when checking the donor registry.

“They think their daughter may have a few siblings,” Ms. Kramer said, “but then they go on our site and find out their daughter actually has 18 brothers and sisters. They’re freaked out. I’m amazed that these groups keep growing and growing.”

Away from the negative consequences Fluid donation may pose, if however such a systematic procedure of child birth is not in this part of the world yet, then it is safe to say that we are still far from civilization and human advancement.

But what could be more special about this so-called Fluid donor that women turned to him to father over 150 kids? Matthew E. Kahn wrote on Environmental and Urban Economics that such a Fluid donor father should be greatly rewarded rather than raising questions over his '150 kids'. Could this man have earned so much from Fluid donation if an article like this is found consequential?

If that's the case, shouldn't developing countries like Nigeria be a 'hot cake' for such systems especially when child trafficking is high in this part of the world and many traffickers could take advantage of our poor medical monitoring system.

All-in-all, as much as we can agree with the fact that the Nigerian government is yet to identify the insatiable need for science, technology, civilization and modernization methodologies in solving the vast problems facing the country, yet can we not check into the dangers they possess?


Becks A. A

Ascology.com



http://ascology.com/news/green360/editorials-avenue/19900-Behold-the-Fluid-donor-father-with-150-kids.html


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