https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/fears-of-inbreeding-after-dutch-sperm-donors-fathered-thousands-msv26tkvd
At least 85 men have used a loophole in Dutch law to become “mass” sperm donors over the past 20 years, the country’s gynaecologists have admitted. A mass sperm donor is a man who has fathered more than 25 children through sperm donation, an issue that first came to prominence through a scandal involving the Dutch YouTuber Jonathan Meijer, who fathered at least 550 children and possibly as many as 1,000. “The number of mass donors in the clinics should have been zero,” said Marieke Schoonenberg, the head of the Dutch professional association of gynaecologists (NVOG), after an investigation by the NOS public broadcaster. “We want to offer our apologies on behalf of the profession. We did not do it right.”
Meijer, a YouTuber and musician from the Hague now living in Africa, donated sperm to at least 13 clinics, including 11 in the Netherlands, as well as approaching prospective parents via social media. Earlier this year he was forced by Dutch judges to remove YouTube videos in which he sought to address his offspring, including with advice to eat pig brains, to become a traditional stay-at-home housewife and not to use shampoo.
Van der Meer described the scandal as “a medical calamity” that will blight the lives of thousands of people. “The donor children involved can never date without worries,” he said. “If they get into a relationship, they will always have to do a DNA test first to rule out that they are involved with a family member.”
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