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She wanted a Black sperm donor to have a child. There were none.
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6:04Now PlayingBlack sperm donors represent less than 2 percent of all sperm donors at the country’s four largest cryobanks, according to a Washington Post analysis.
The severe shortage is forcing Black women who need donor sperm to conceive a child into a painful choice: Choose a donor of another race and raise a biracial child or try to buy sperm from unregulated apps and online groups.
The reasons for the shortage are myriadfailure among cryobanks to recruit Black donors; a selection process that demands a threegeneration medical history (which may be challenging for Black men who may not have access to quality health care) and excludes donors with felony convictions; mistrust of the medical profession by Black men because of a legacy of historical discrimination. Read moreSubscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube
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