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A Georgia man who donated sperm as a way to pay his bills through college is now speaking out after realizing he has likely fathered hundreds of children due to the wildly unregulated fertility industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dylan Stone-Millar told People<\/a> he started donating sperm as a way to make some money while he was a graduate student at Georgia State University in 2011.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately my motivation was financial, to help pay for bills and tuition as a broke student,\u201d he explained, noting that he made around 400 donations over five years, pocketing about $40,000 of income.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Though he was assured that recipients would not receive his information, he was contacted by a woman who had conceived a daughter with his sperm and had tracked him down online. As time went on, he began to hear from many more recipients who had utilized his sperm.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now I know of at least 62 families,\u201d he said, adding that some of them have had multiple children using his sperm. \u201cBut typically only about 40 percent of recipient parents report their birth back to the sperm bank, so I anticipate there being around 150 families and more than 250 children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

READ: \u2018Sperm donor\u2019 travels world impregnating women, complains he can\u2019t get a date<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact, the sperm bank is still utilizing his sperm, though it’s nine years old; his youngest child was born just four months ago. \u201cThe sperm bank tells me that they\u2019ve retired me,\u201d he said, \u201cbut there is no legal requirement in the U.S. for them to stop distributing my donated sperm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stone-Miller has tried to establish a connection with all of these children \u2014 who are biologically his \u2014 and he has spent an extensive amount of time traveling to see them all. At the same time, he is calling on the fertility industry to establish regulations, including limits on the number of pregnancies for each sperm donor, and changes in the way the industry treats sperm donors and their recipient families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not emphasized enough in the article is the trauma frequently experienced by the children who are born as a result of this sperm donation. Stone-Miller describes leaving them as “heart-wrenching.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for me to say goodbye to the kids, knowing it\u2019s the last time I\u2019m going to see them at that age,\u201d he said. \u201cI cherish the memories I\u2019m able to create with them. There are a lot of tears and conversations about when they\u2019re going to see me again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This unnatural separation between parent and child is just one of the many dangers of assisted reproductive technology (ART). Children of sperm donors have described feeling “mass-produced<\/a>” as they are commodified<\/a> and turned into products to be bought and sold. Many worry about having dozens of siblings whom they don’t even know. One study<\/a> from Harvard Medical School found that 62% of children born after being conceived through donor technologies consider it to be immoral and unethical.<\/p>\n

The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail this Christmas for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Georgia man who donated sperm as a way to pay his bills through college is now speaking out after realizing he has likely fathered hundreds of children due to the wildly unregulated fertility industry. 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