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Ross Douthat: The birds and the bees (via the fertility clinic)

By Alliance Alert

Ross Douthat writing in the New York Times: "About a million American adults, if not more, are the biological children of sperm donors. Not surprisingly, these Americans have a complicated relationship to the reproductive marketplace that made their existence possible. Their inner lives are the subject of a fascinating study from the Institute for American Values, based on a survey of younger adults, ages 18 to 45, who were conceived through sperm donation. The authors ? Elizabeth Marquardt, Norval Glenn and Karen Clark ? depict a population that?s at once grateful to the fertility industry and uneasy about the way they were conceived, supportive of assisted fertility but haunted by the feeling of being a bought-and-paid-for child."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 01, 2010 (boomark / email).