Sperm Blanked

by gmony714 | September 16, 2007 at 03:53 am
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New Yorkers looking for a bouncy, blond, blue-eyed baby are in a panic as the city’s largest sperm bank - and the only one with imported goods - is running dry.

Cryos International, based in the Financial District, has gone to seed because the Food and Drug Administration banned sperm samples from 30 countries to prevent the spread of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare, fatal disorder caused by eating beefnordic.jpg contaminated with mad-cow disease. Two years after the measure, Cryos has run out of offerings from such prized blond Norsemen as “Oluf,” “Dagh,” “Finn,” “Ingi,” “Jorn” and “Ante.” If matters aren’t resolved soon, say goodbye to “Jarls,” “Sven,” “Gorm” and “Leif,” as well. One Upper West Side couple, who has a daughter by the Danish donor “Dane” and is looking to have another, was shocked by the ban.

The parents, both 41, purchased Dane’s donation before it ran out. They have enough left to try another artificial insemination, but if that doesn’t work they won’t be able to give their 8-month-old daughter a full sibling. “It’s really stunning because I did want the same father for my daughter,” said the mother, whose husband was left sterile by a childhood disease. The couple chose Cryos because they wanted a child who resembled them. “Dare we hope that here is some sort of magical Scandinavian sperm bank? We looked on the Internet and found out about this clinic,” she said.

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