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Buy Your Semen Locally, Not On The Internet, Warns Canada

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 30, 2011
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Submitted by Hank on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 14:41
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All people care about these days is cost.  What happened to buying local?

Health Canada warned would-be parents not to purchase "fresh" semen online, saying it may be tainted with infectious diseases.  Pesky Canada has strict controls for obtaining donor semen to minimize the potential risk of transmitting serious infectious diseases, like a requirement that donor semen must be quarantined for a minimum of six months and donors screened and tested before the donation and six months after, but that is just Big Government trying to control the mom and pop semen sellers out there.

Has anyone actually been infected?  Nope, but if they can save even one person who buys semen on the Internet...

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