October 25, 2005
Not that There's Anything Wrong with That

See! See! When you institute controls on a commodity, shortages always happen:

A Brussels fertility clinic claims it is being swamped by demand from French lesbian couples seeking fertility treatment.

"Last year, of the inseminations using a donor's sperm, 72 percent of patients came from France, with a majority of them being homosexual," the Erasmus fertility clinic's head Anne Delbaere told La Libre Belgique.
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"We haven't got enough sperm samples in stock to meet all the demand," she said. "We don't want to close access to French female couples, but we can't welcome them at the expense of heterosexual couples," said Delbaere.

In a perfect world, someone out there would set up a business that connected willing couples with willing donors at whatever price they thought would make a profit. While the US has the entrepenurialism to make it happen, we're so hung up on the social implications it probably never will. Somewhere in Latin America though, a businessman probably has a cunning plan...

Posted by scott at October 25, 2005 01:09 PM

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Even better- someone out there is seeing this and realizing it'd make a great plot/humorous incident in the next "you life in college wasn't nearly as fun as this" type movie.

I can see it now - stranded in Europe as part of a college experience gone wrong, our boys need to make enough money to get back to England so they can fly home. Where can they get cash quickly? Enter the Brussels' clinic and a either a hottie nurse, or better yet, Helga Mistress of the Biscuits (with her cankles).

Posted by: ronaprhys on October 25, 2005 01:45 PM
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