Sweden has a sperm shortage.

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Fnord
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15 Apr 2021, 8:21 am

Headline: Sweden Faces Sperm Deficit

Colm Fulton of Reuters wrote:

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden is facing an acute shortage of sperm for assisted pregnancy as would-be donors avoid hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic, halting inseminations in large parts of the healthcare system and driving up waiting times by years.

"We’re running out of sperm. We’ve never had so few donors as during the last year..." [...]

Okay men, now is your chance! Sweden needs you!

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15 Apr 2021, 12:48 pm

LOL. Thank you sharing that, Fnord!

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15 Apr 2021, 12:58 pm

Ah. But there is a snag. In the UK and the EU, laws came in (UK was under EU law) that insist that men pay a certain amount for each of their offspring to the government. This caused hardships for men who may have had a devorce and already had agreements in place as they were faced with this on top of their current agreements. One train driver I knew had three quarters of his pay going out to either his ex wife or the government, and his ex wife was the one who left him for another man.

But since then, new laws have come up that insist that sperm donors come under the same catagory, so that the ones who used to donate found themselves having to pay out a portion of their wages for every child that came from their donated sperm who was of 16 years old or under. This has not only caused the previous donors to be in great financial difficulty, but has caused an extreme shortage of new donors to come forward.

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15 Apr 2021, 1:02 pm

I can certainly use the money