Yesterday night, I watched the first episode on the first season of the big bang theory sit-com. Yes, it is a serial program show which has been popular until now. Surprisingly, the title of the first episode is pilot which I do not know what is that mean.
All that pilot thing is started by two men which are Cooper and Hofstadter went to the sperm bank. Even though I do not understand about what is the specific meaning of the title, but I have something interesting about Sheldon who was disagree about the filling the form in case they can give their sperm. Well, according to his perception that the bank sperm which will result the offspring of many people is more likely to inherit a genetic fraud. What kind of fraud? Well, this article is neither talking the big bang theory first episode nor Sheldon but I am interested in discussing about the sperm bank occurred in many developed countries today.
Something has crossed my mind when I wrote this article, why humanity did construct a sperm bank. A building containing of many genetic compounds from many people around the world is constructed to prevent us from extinction, do we did that? Well, actually I do not know then I tried to search on the Internet what is the objective of this idea. After googling, I found that the sperm bank is used for women who needed sperm so they can achieve pregnancy. The sperm is given by a donor which stores in the bank. Actually, yes, it helps humanity to maintain their generation.
But there is a problem even though through the medical perspectives, this kind of pregnancy is not different from normal pregnancy. The experts coin this process with the name of artificial insemination. Instead of using a sexual intercourse, scientist injects the sperm through the women’ ovulation organ. So, what is the problem about that?
Scientifically speaking, the woman which has received the sperm is responsible to raise the child. Even more, she must take care the baby whether his biological father cares or not. It means, this poor (I could say she is a poor woman) woman put a big hope from the genetic aspect provided by the donor. The best scenario is the children from this artificial insemination have good characteristics both physical and emotional aspect otherwise the woman must face it whether she likes or not. Basically, this is like a gamble for a woman and having children in my tradition is sacred things. My society consider children as a gift from the God.
On the other hand, the practices of sperm bank will inherit a good genetics aspect. The donor who has good physical characteristics, for instance, he which does not have carrier disease will become the best donor. And the bank put high price on his sperm and leads the related people consider it as something commercial. So, sperm trading is something normal and it is not against the ethical and moral principles.