{"id":36907,"date":"2014-07-28T22:23:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36907"},"modified":"2014-07-28T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T22:23:13","slug":"no-rainbow-families-ethnic-donor-stipulation-at-fertility-centre-floors-local-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36907","title":{"rendered":"No \u2018rainbow families\u2019: Ethnic donor stipulation at fertility centre \u2018floors\u2019 local woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/calgary\/story.html?id=10063343\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>No \u2018rainbow families\u2019: Ethnic donor stipulation at fertility centre \u2018floors\u2019 local woman<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Herald<\/a><br \/>\nCalgary, Alberta, Canada<br \/>\n2014-07-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Jbarrett@postmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jessica Barrett<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calgary\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary<\/a> woman says she was shocked to learn of a policy at the city\u2019s only fertility treatment centre that restricts patients from using sperm, eggs or embryos from donors who do not match their ethnic background.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine, who asked to use only her first name, said she sought invitro fertilization at the Regional Fertility Program last March as a single woman. During routine consultations with her doctor she was told she could only use sperm from donors who were white, like her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when everything went downhill,\u201d she told the Herald. \u201cI was absolutely floored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Calvin Greene, the clinic\u2019s administrative director, confirmed the private facility will not treat couples or singles who insist on using donors of a different ethnicity. The policy has been in place since the clinic opened in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure that we should be creating rainbow families just because some single woman decides that that\u2019s what she wants,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s her prerogative, but that\u2019s not her prerogative in our clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A statement on the clinic\u2019s website reads: \u201cit is the practice of the Regional Fertility Program not to permit the use of a sperm donor that would result in a future child appearing racially different than the recipient or the recipient\u2019s partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene said doctors at the clinic feel \u201ca child of an ethnic background should have the ability to be able to identify with their ethnic roots.\u201d He added patients should have a \u201ccultural connection\u201d to their donors.<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta Human Rights Commission upheld the policy after a white couple brought a complaint against the clinic about five years ago, Greene said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/calgary\/story.html?id=10063343\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No \u2018rainbow families\u2019: Ethnic donor stipulation at fertility centre \u2018floors\u2019 local woman Calgary Herald Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2014-07-25 Jessica Barrett A Calgary woman says she was shocked to learn of a policy at the city\u2019s only fertility treatment centre that restricts patients from using sperm, eggs or embryos from donors who do not match their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,2039,8],"tags":[3238,17635,17634,17636,17637],"class_list":["post-36907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-alberta","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-herald","tag-jessica-barrett","tag-regional-fertility-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}