A Dutch musician who donated his sperm to infertile women worldwide, making him the biological father of more than 550 children, has been accused of raising the risk of incest.
According to the British Telegraph and The Times on the 27th (local time), Jonathan Jacob Maier (41), a musician from The Hague in the Netherlands, has donated sperm to hundreds of women around the world through infertility clinics and the Internet, giving birth to more than 550 children. .
Meyer donated sperm to at least 13 infertility clinics, 11 of which were confirmed to be in the Netherlands. He said that he donated sperm by promoting it on a website related to sperm donation for those who could not afford the expensive cost of infertility clinics.
Women who gave birth to Meyer’s sperm were confirmed to live in the Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Serbia, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Romania, Denmark, Sweden, Mexico and the United States.
It is not known how many children he had. Meyer told the woman who donated his sperm that he had “gave birth to more than 500 children.” Of these, at least 102 children in the Netherlands alone were confirmed to have been born with his sperm.
In the Netherlands, the law prohibits a man from fathering more than 25 children or impregnating more than 12 women. This law was created to prevent unintentional incest and marriage, as well as to prevent psychological problems for children who have learned that they have hundreds of ‘brothers and sisters’ biologically.
The Dutch government blacklisted Meyer and ordered all clinics to stop using Meyer’s sperm, but Meyer moved to Kenya and continued to donate sperm through social media campaigns and clinics in Denmark and Ukraine, using various pseudonyms. .
An Australian couple paid more than 6,000 euros (about 8.46 million won) through a Danish infertility clinic and received male sperm named ‘Rood’ to give birth to a child. However, they soon found out that they had received Mayer’s sperm.
The mother said, “I chose him because he seemed like a creative and smart man, but I didn’t know he donated so much.” “I am really disgusted and angry. I can’t believe I have to tell my child that I have hundreds of siblings,” she said.
Victims around the world formed a group and decided to take measures to prevent children who have Meyer as their biological father from dating or marrying in the future.
They asked Meyer to “don’t donate any more sperm,” but Meyer refused, saying, “I want to help people realize their dream of having children and see my children around the world.”
In response, Donnerkind, a civic group established in the Netherlands for the human rights of children born through sperm donation, recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of 25 families who suffered damage. While the legal battle is expected to begin next month, the group that filed the suit appealed to “stop Meyer from using a pseudonym to donate sperm and destroy all his sperm in storage.”
Source: Donga
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