{"id":37113,"date":"2014-08-20T16:54:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37113"},"modified":"2014-08-20T16:54:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:54:40","slug":"whose-sperm-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37113","title":{"rendered":"Whose Sperm Counts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nursingclio.org\/2014\/08\/19\/whose-sperm-counts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Whose Sperm Counts?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nursingclio.org\" target=\"_blank\">Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical<\/a><br \/>\n2014-08-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/larafreidenfelds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lara Freidenfelds<\/strong><\/a>, Historian of Sex, Reproduction, and Women&#8217;s Health in America<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a Canadian fertility clinic made the news because it refused to allow a white client to be impregnated with sperm from a donor of color. The clinic director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/calgary\/story.html?id=10063343\" target=\"_blank\">told the media<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m not sure that we should be creating rainbow families just because some single woman decides that that\u2019s what she wants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I first read this, I felt offended. Personally. My husband and I are different races, and our kids are bi-racial. I guess I had never proclaimed us a \u201crainbow family,\u201d but ok. The clinic\u2019s decision to avoid creating bi-racial children seemed like a judgment on my family. Like, my family\u2019s not terrible or anything, but as a society we wouldn\u2019t want to go making extra families like mine if we can stick to normal, uni-racial families. Am I a bad mother because I ignored race when I chose my spouse? Would it have been more responsible of me to have my kids with a white father?<\/p>\n<p>The media and Canadian officials agreed with my gut feeling. Journalists have written highly critical stories. Through a spokesperson, Health Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rona_Ambrose\" target=\"_blank\">Rona Ambrose<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/m.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/calgary-fertility-clinic-in-spotlight-over-policy-to-restrict-donations-to-patients-of-same-ethnicity\/article19813167?service=mobile\" target=\"_blank\">declared<\/a>, \u201cOur government believes that discrimination in any form is unacceptable.\u201d Through my twitter feed came declarations of \u201cold time racism\u201d in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>So, case closed? If we chastise the backward clinic director and remove the race stipulation, everyone is happy, no one is second-class, and the infertility client can have a \u201crainbow family\u201d just like mine?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/nursingclio.org\/2014\/08\/19\/whose-sperm-counts\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whose Sperm Counts? Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-08-19 Lara Freidenfelds, Historian of Sex, Reproduction, and Women&#8217;s Health in America Recently, a Canadian fertility clinic made the news because it refused to allow a white client to be impregnated with sperm from a donor of color. The clinic director told the media, \u201cI\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,414,2039,8],"tags":[17767,16846,16845],"class_list":["post-37113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-family","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-lara-freidenfelds","tag-nursing-clio","tag-nursing-clio-because-the-personal-is-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37113","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=37113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}