A sperm donor in Europe has apparently passed on a genetic disease to no fewer than 197 children "fathered" by him. Now the article discusses how things could be mitigated, which is fine, but one angle that we ought to see is "knowing how genetic disease, specifically hemophilia, is widespread among the royal families of Europe, shouldn't we have some reasonable limits on how many women receive a given donor's seed?". After all, it's not as if we have no evidence of what happens due to inbreeding, not only in royal families, but also in domestic animals.
Not that I'm deaf to the pleas of those who cannot conceive children in the ordinary way, but it seems reasonable that, yes, we ought to do some level of genetic testing, and perhaps more importantly (since genetic testing is imperfect at best), we ought to limit the number of recipients for a given donor to, say, a couple dozen or so?
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