Ladies and gentlemen, I come bearing terrible news: New Zealand‘s jizz stocks are critically low.
No, true but. The country is currently in the grip of a sperm drought, with prospective mums facing a potential two-year waiting list for sperm as the demand for treatment grows. There simply isn’t enough to go ’round.
The issue here is NZ’s legislative restrictions on sperm donations: ever since 2004, the country has forbidden anonymous donors, as well as any monetary compensation for donation. The donor must also agree to being identified to any resultant children when the child turns 18. It’s pretty strenuous, basically.
“Increasingly we are hearing of New Zealand women travelling overseas for reproductive tourism,” said Dr Mary Birdsall, a fertility specialist, told Guardian Australia.
“It’s a very challenging situation. It’s challenging to recruit donors, and it is tough on the women who are psychologically and biologically ready to start a family, but can’t.”
According to Fertility Associates, NZ’s biggest fertility clinic, there’s usually enough spunk in the nation to provide fertility treatment to about 80 families. By current estimates, the number of families actually looking for sperm is four times that number. Hence the cum drought.
Many countries – including Australia – allow imported sperm, and many NZ women and their families are calling for their country to follow suit.
“New Zealand has had a shortage of sperm donors for a long time,” said Dr John Peek, the general manager of Fertility Associates.
“I think rather than peaking it has become a continuous drought. Like climate change, it has become the new normal.”
Source: The Guardian.
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