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Whose sperm is it, anyway.(sperm banks)

O, The Oprah Magazine | December 1, 2002 | Copyright

Once, sperm banks were secret societies that concealed donor identities. Today, a female-run facility is doing away with the whole notion of anonymity and giving children the right to know whom they came from. Is this a good thing?

WHEN MAGGIE SHEA ROUSSEAU WAS 5 YEARS OLD and her kindergarten teacher asked the kids to draw an object that began with the letter s, Maggie crayoned something with an oval head and along serpentine body * "Oh, you drew a snake," said her teacher. * "Actually, that's a sperm," Maggie replied. * The teacher blanched, and Maggie went on…

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