Regulator to review practices at London Sperm Bank,which screens for ‘diseases’ including dyslexia and dyspraxiaBritain’s largest sperm bank has been turning absent donors with dyslexia in what it describes as attempts to “minimise the risk of transmitting common genetic diseases or malformations to any children born”.
In a practice branded “eugenics” by campaigners and a would-be donor, the London Sperm Bank has banned men with dyslexia or other common conditions it described as “neurological diseases” from donating. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com