An Australian man who has fathered over 23 children within a year is currently under investigation after he violated the 10 new family policies in sperm donor clinics.
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40-year-old Alan Phan is currently under investigation by the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Authority for creating too many children after privately donating his sperm to future parents and fertility clinics. Clinics informed officials that Phan had been donating sperm outside of their registries and Victorian law states a sperm donor can only provide for ten families which includes their own. However, Phan said it was difficult to turn women down who wanted to become mothers and donated to three women in one day.
He claims that he is the first Vietnamese man to donate sperm in Australia and that his sperm is in high demand due to his ethnicity and the “success rate” as reported by the Daily Mail. Phan says he had to abstain from sex, take vitamins, change his diet in order to provide the best sperm.
‘I was pretty surprised at the amount of interest I received,’
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However, the Fertility Society of Australia says clinics cannot create more than a reasonable amount of families and men must sign documentation promising they will not go over that limit. VARTA Cheif Executive Officer, Louise Johnson, told the outlet that was “naive and sad” of Phan to continue to donate his sperms despite the policy.
“Once a treating clinic knows that more than ten families have been formed through one donor’s donations, they cannot keep using that donor’s sperm. In addition to this when a donor reaches the ten-family limit the clinic cannot use embryos already created using his sperm for a recipient who has not already had a child using that donor’s sperm.’