Jamie Spiers has 37 biological siblings. At least, that’s how many she knows about. When her mom, a lesbian single mother by choice, conceived her using a sperm donor, the bank said only five other ...

When Venus Brady, a Black woman who lives on the South Side, decided to become a single mother, she knew she wanted a baby who shares her ethnicity. She says her Black heritage is important to her and ...

In February, many in vitro fertilization clinics in the state of Alabama paused some of their services after the state’s supreme court said that frozen embryos were “extrauterine children.” It was the ...

As the cost of using sperm banks continues to rise, an increasing number of people are turning to Facebook groups to find their own donors without the middleman. A report from Business Insider tells ...

When Barbara Raboy responded to a newspaper ad for a part-time medical billing job at the Oakland Feminist Women’s Health Center in 1978, she had no idea it would change her life. Also known as the ...

A representative of Seattle Sperm Bank admitted to selling unused sperm vials to the FBI during an industry conference, purportedly for the agency to research splat patterns, multiple sources told ...

African American women who turn to sperm banks often have a difficult time finding a match. That's because there are so few Black donors. Researchers in Kansas are trying to solve that dilemma. From ...

This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at coloradosun.com. The state legislature is considering whether to roll back Colorado’s first-in-the-nation ...

Sperm from a single donor in Europe has reportedly been used to conceive at least 67 pregnancies, although the donor carried a rare cancer-causing mutation. The donor’s mutation has been linked to ...