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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1979
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I DENVER— Generous sperm
donors, who may be fathering as
many as 15 children in a three-year
period, are causing Denver doctors
some concern.
Health professionals are afraid
that some sperm donors may be too
giving and increasing the odds of a
donor’s offspring mating.
I Dr. Paul Wexler, chief of obstet
rics at Rose Medical Center, said
individual donors may be siring as
many as 15 children over a three-
year period. He is concerned about
ares willbf li ^be consequences such generosity
Jmay have on society in the form of
g sorders.
If we have a donor who has been
working three to five years for more
an one physician, there is a risk
that his children may someday meet
and marry,” he said, adding that the
donor’s offspring would be about the
same age and would likely be in the
same social and economic group.
II Although the procedure has been
meet at 7% used with some success since the
1860s, effective, large-scale use of
artificial insemination has occurred
within the past 30 years. More than
6,000 children born in the U.S. last
year were conceived by aritificial in
semination.
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Except for the formal position
taken against it by the Roman
Catholic Church, the procedure is
socially acceptable, Wexler said.
He estimated nearly all of Den
ver’s 140 obstetricians and
gynecologists occasionally perform
articificial insemination. Most of the
donors are medical and college stu
dents or physicians in training who
have fathered healthy children.
“It’s a way for these guys to earn
some extra income,” said Wexler.
Most donors are paid from $25 to
$45 for each semen specimen.
Wexler said most obstetricians
test donors for genetic defects or
history of disease, but there is no
formal policy, either in Colorado or
nationally, requiring that they do
so. Because of the sensitive and con
fidential nature of the donation, few
doctors ask donors to provide more
than a minimal health history.
Under Colorado’s Uniform Par
entage Act, the woman’s husband is
considered the natural father of the
child if he consents to the artificial
insemination. But there are other
liabilities regarding donation of
sperm.
Denver attorney Scott Honegger
said a sperm bank could be held li
able if sperm received by a woman
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WASHINGTON — President
larter’s pastor. Dr. Charles Tren-
tham, has been fired by the congre-
Igation of the First Baptist Church
r dating the daughter of the bible
class teacher, church officials said
Monday.
Officials said the congregation
voted 166-140 Sunday to accept the
:ecommendation of the deacons that
rentham’s contract not be re-
lewed.
Trentham, 60, had been dating
the 28-year-old daughter of Sunday
School teacher Fred Gregg. Gregg’s
daughter was separated from her
husband but not divorced. Tren
tham has been divorced twice.
There was no comment from the
White House. Carter and his family
joined the church shortly after he
became president. About once a
month, the president takes Gregg s
place in teaching Sunday School.
Although Trentham broke no
church laws, lifetime deacons ac
cused him of “poor judgment” and
“conduct not in accord” with the
standards of the congregation.
The close vote was taken after a
three hour, bitter debate. Trentham
made a statement in his own de
fense before the meeting, saying his
relationship with the woman had
been “above reproach,” then left be
fore the balloting began.
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WASHINGTON — A newly re
leased report dated 1950 indicates
America may have used chemical
and biological warfare against the
Japanese on a small scale if World
War II had not ended when it did.
The document, labeled top se
cret, describes government efforts
in the fields of chemical and biologi
cal warfare during the war and said
one antipersonnel biological bomb
was “brought to the point of man-
facture” by a facility at the Vigo
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The report said the bomb “was
nown to be grossly inefficient,” but
as deemed to be effective.
The document was presented to
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radiological warfare by Col. William
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“This gets into an interesting area
of product liability, and whether or
not product liability applies in this
case,” Honegger said.
He suggested a “product liability”
issue could be raised if, for instance,
the woman received a mislabeled
donation and the resulting child was
not of the same race as the couple.
A consent form used at Wexler’s
hospital stipulates the donor be of
the same race as the couple wanting
artificial insemination and that there
be no obvious genetic abnor
malities.
Wexler said he favors guidelines
requiring that both the woman and
the donors be tested for genetic ab
normalities, that records be kept on
the donors, that follow-up be done
on infants born of donors and that
sperm donations per donor be lim
ited.
Wexler, who is secretary of the
Colorado Society of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists, said his group
backs such guidelines. The group
also favors a registry of donors.
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A copy, first declassified in 1977,
was made available by American
Citizens for Honesty in Govern
ment, an arm of the Church of Sci
entology.
The document defined biological
warfare as the military use of bac
teria or other living organisms, their
toxic products or chemical plant
growth regulators to kill people,
animals or plants or to reduce food
supplies.
“Preparations for the use of cer
tain of the chemical plant growth-
inhibitors were also well in hand by
V-J Day,” it said. “Had the war con
tinued a few months longer, it is be
lieved that these agents would have
found actual employment, at least
on a small scale, in the Pacific
Area.”
The report added, without fur
ther explanation, that in 1948
American, British and Canadian
forces engaged in a “successful large
scale seaborne field trial” of biologi
cal warfare agents in the Caribbean.
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