Insemination services are readily available
for women in the San Francisco Bay Area. A good place to start
is with a consultation with a local friendly sperm bank, such
as Pacific Reproductive Services in SF or the Sperm Bank of California
in Berkeley. Since you probably will have many questions, and
because the required medical steps toward insemination are often
provided by different health care facilities, a consultation
will help you to clarify the process and to figure out the most
beneficial and cost-effective way for you, your partner or co-parent
to become pregnant.
There are three basic types of donors:
Known Donors: these are donors who have agreed
to become known to your child under certain circumstances, such
as when your child turns 18 or if he or the child contract a
life-threatening illness before the age of 18.
Personally Known Donors: also known as directed
donors, this donor is someone you have personal knowledge of,
a relative of your partner or a friend, for instance.
Unknown Donors: these are donors not willing
to be known to your child or you under any circumstances. Some
sperm banks have discontinued the use of unknown donors.
When you use a doctor or a sperm bank to
conduct a donor insemination, this usually precludes your donor
from becoming a legal parent to your child. However, that does
not preclude a donor from suing for paternity at a later date,
should he becom
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