Huang, a professional black-market sperm donor, vowed for a third time to Yu Hua and her husband, “I swear that I will never meet this child for my whole life under any circumstances!”
The couple from Shanxi Province nodded. They had been longing for a child, and Huang was tall and intelligent. Although not classically handsome, he bore a striking resemblance to Yu Hua’s husband, and shared his blood type, ensuring no one would ever have to know their secret.
They signed the agreement to let Huang donate his sperm to the wife, joining the ranks of a growing number of Chinese couples who resort to the Internet-based black market, despite the lack of safeguards to protect women from giving birth to an unhealthy baby. There are only 11 sperm banks in China, and they suffer from a shortage of sperm donors, explains Jiang Xiang-long, director of the Jiangxi Province Human Sperm Bank. Read full article.
