Sperm Donor Scandal: Prosecutors on the Case

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By asking donors to donate their sperm not for 25 children, but for 25 families, the Medical Center Children's Wish (MCK) in Leiderdorp deliberately created at least 36 mass donors between 2006 and 2017, Nieuwsuur reports.

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The Federal Agency for Drugs and Health Products (AFMPS) has reported to the court that two fertility centres have failed to comply with the rule limiting the number of patients who can receive semen from the same donor to six. ...

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Two women in the Netherlands have received sperm from the Danish donor who was later diagnosed with a cancer-causing gene. This was announced by the Belgian Minister of Health, Vandenbroucke. It was previously known that 52 children had been conceived in Belgium by 37 women using the sperm of this donor. It now appears that this concerns 53 children, two of whom died during pregnancy. At least ten of these children were diagnosed with cancer. Of…

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Saturday, June 7, 2025 - 10:44 Carcinogen in a sperm donation: two other children conceived in Belgium are affected By RTL info with Belga Two additional children designed in a Belgian fertility centre are potentially carrying a gene that causes certain cancers, said Saturday the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AFMPS). Reading Zen A few days ago, the Minister of Public Health Frank Vandenbroucke and the Federal Medicines Agency…

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In Denmark, it is relatively straightforward to produce a child with the semen of a foreign man, because in the small kingdom there is an extremely liberal legislation on this – and several seed banks that also shape the market internationally. Why the Danish business model is so successful.