From the UK Daily Mail. (H/T ECM)
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Britain is to get its first NHS-funded national sperm bank to make it easier for lesbian couples and single women to have children.
For as little as £300 – less than half the cost of the service at a private clinic – they will be able to search an online database and choose an anonymous donor on the basis of his ethnicity, height, profession and even hobbies.
The bank, which is due to open in October, will then send out that donor’s sperm to a clinic of the client’s choice for use in trying for a baby.
Heterosexual couples will also be able to benefit, but the move – funded by the Department of Health – is largely designed to meet the increasing demand from thousands of women who want to start a family without having a relationship with a man.
[…]The National Sperm Bank will be based at Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, which currently runs an existing NHS fertility clinic and recruits sperm donors from the local population.
Funded by a £77,000 Government grant, the bank will be run by the National Gamete Donation Trust (NGDT) which this year received an additional £120,000 of public money to organise egg and sperm donation.
Over the next three years the NGDT aims to recruit at least 1,000 men and collect sufficient donations for the sperm bank to meet demand.
Laura Witjens, NGDT chief executive, said: ‘There are people who are medically infertile or practically infertile – they want to use donation services in the UK but can’t do so because there isn’t enough donated sperm.
‘The [demand from] same-sex couples and single women has grown exponentially. It’s become more socially acceptable to say, I haven’t found a guy yet, don’t want to wait for him, still want a child.’
She added: ‘The aim is that we will have enough surplus sperm so that we will be able to set up a service for people like single women and same-sex couples.’
Keep in mind that in the UK, the NHS allows free IVF already – including for lesbian couples and single mothers.
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Five thousand fatherless children have been born to lesbian couples and single mothers following fertility treatment in the past decade, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The figure emerged on the day that it was announced that lesbians and older women are due to get free IVF on the taxpayer.
Women aged 40 to 42 will qualify for state-funded fertility treatment for the first time, according to the guidelines from the health spending watchdog NICE. Previously, the watchdog did not recommend IVF on the NHS for the over-39s.
And – despite fears the cash-strapped health service cannot afford extra burdens – women in same-sex relationships with proven infertility will also be able to get free IVF. Up until now, lesbian couples have had to pay privately for such treatment.
[…]The requirement that fertility doctors consider a child’s need for a male role model before giving IVF treatment or facilitating insemination was axed.
It was felt that the law discriminated against singletons and lesbian couples. Since that year, the total number of babies created without a father has almost quadrupled from 312 to 1,124.
I know that my friends in the UK are very proud of their health care system, but for those of us who are free market capitalists, we understand that whatever the government nationalizes will be used to buy votes. And that’s exactly what’s happened in the NHS. In the free market system, people have to PAY for health care, and that means that they don’t get frivolous goodies that have nothing to do with health care. But in the UK, health care isn’t about health care – it’s about buying votes. So old people who need medical treatment die waiting for it, but young women can get free breast enlargements, nose jobs and tummy tucks.
The UK Daily Mail explains:
Women are persuading doctors to perform free cosmetic surgery on the NHS by exaggerating their unhappiness with their looks.
New research reveals that surgeons are being cajoled into offering patients thousands of pounds worth of treatment they do not need. It exposes the lengths to which some women go to persuade surgeons to operate on them for nothing – using ploys such as unflattering make-up and clothing.
Among the operations being offered free are tummy tucks, breast implants and nose jobs.
Today surgeons claim the soaring demand for cosmetic surgery on the NHS is putting a huge strain on resources. They say many patients are placing doctors in an impossible position by refusing to accept they cannot have free surgery.
[…]Top 10 operations
Most requested cosmetic surgery on the NHS:
1: Tummy tucks
2: Mole removal
3: Breast enhancement
4: Scar removal
5: Nose job
6: Breast reduction
7: Acne scar removal
8: Correcting breast asymmetry
9: Ear pinned back
10: Removal of bags under eyes
Why is this happening? Because when government takes over areas of the private economy, it becomes about buying votes from voters want free goodies paid for by their neighbors. It’s not just cosmetic surgery – abortions are taxpayer-funded in the NHS as well. And not just one abortion, but multiple abortions. It’s perfect and there are no losers. Except for the people being aborted, the people who pay into the system and die waiting for surgery, the men who have to pay taxes and force their wives to work to make ends meet and the fatherless children raised by lesbians and single mothers. Oh, and of course sex-change operations are free in the UK, as are sex-selection abortions. This is what socialized “medicine” really looks like. As you can tell, the social programs seem to be especially targeted to women voters. It especially rewards those who are irresponsible and reckless.
Do you favor government taking over health care in the United States? Then you better know what you are asking for.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Liberal logic: Sperm banks should be free for everyone, because children are commodities to be acquired when a woman wants one. If a woman wants to accessorize her life with a baby, that’s her right. The fact that she’s purposely creating a fatherless child is irrelevant because fathers are irrelevant.
That’s what liberals think. Unfortunately for the children, they’re getting their way in many places.
Purposely depriving a child of a father or mother for no good reason is child abuse. Obviously, it is sometimes unavoidable due to death or abuse, but to separate a child from his father or mother for capricious reasons (like wanting a child, but not wanting a man or deciding your marriage isn’t making you happy) is child abuse. It ought to be, if not illegal, then certainly not subsidized.
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100% agree Lindsay.
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