Should sperm donors be required to pay child support?

[Bo]

I'm not sure, but an leaning towards No, since forcing them to pay child support would decrease the number of people wanting to donate sperm.

[Dr. Cynic]

The very backbone of sperm donation, to me, seems to be anonymity, so no.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Absolutely not.  It should be made very clear to the woman using a donor's sperm that she is entitled to no child support or any other support by the donor.

[minionofmidas]

I'm not sure, but an leaning towards No, since forcing them to pay child support would decrease the number of people wanting to donate sperm.

Sounds as good an argument as any for a Yes vote.

Where exactly did this notion come from that procreation, and on-demand procreation with healthy children to boot, was some sort of human right, and a positive right at that?

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Seeing as a sperm donater cannot know if his sperm has been used to succesfully produce a child, and has no parental rights to that child, obviously he shouldn't have any parental obligations either.

If a woman wants her kid to have a dad who pays child support she can go out there and actually find a real boyfriend, or if she's a lesbian a gay friend. Or I don't know... adopt maybe?!

   

[hawkeye59]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk



No

[HST1948]

Absolutely not, if they are required t pay child support they should have full parental rights to the child as well.

[J. J.]

If it is solely for the woman's procreation purpose, and the donor has or claims no rights, no.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm not sure, but an leaning towards No, since forcing them to pay child support would decrease the number of people wanting to donate sperm.

Sounds as good an argument as any for a Yes vote.

Where exactly did this notion come from that procreation, and on-demand procreation with healthy children to boot, was some sort of human right, and a positive right at that?

I think there's a very good argument to be made for procreation being a negative right, but I agree with you about 'on-demand procreation with healthy children as a positive right' is...it's understandable why people would think that way but I find it more than a little questionable.

Voting No, though, because if the system's going to exist then making them pay child support undermines the whole point.

[Mechaman]

Only if it's a direct donation.

[Cincinnatus]

NO.  Why would I DONATE my sperm to benefit (most of the time) an anonymous woman, just to be financially obligated later.  I'd rather have my own child.  I think it goes without saying, that it should be common sense that these "beneficiaries" shouldn't expect child support, but as snowyguy said, it's probably necessary to make it abundantly clear

[bgwah]

Why the heck did people respond to this seriously?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Why the heck did people respond to this seriously?

That's what puzzles me as well.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

That would be like giving someone a car and paying all the gas bills.

[Eraserhead]

This guy was one of the worst trolls on here. Although I still opposed the banning, of course.

[Nichlemn]

I think this question has merit as a reducto ad absurdum for child support questions in general. For instance, it's hard to reconcile not supporting a means of voluntarily contracting out of child support pre-birth and opposing it for sperm donors.

[Del Tachi]

This doesn't need to be an issue.

Artificial insemination should only be open to married couples who are unable to conceive naturally as children are best reared in a stable, two-parent household.  Since the child will be born into a two-parent household, the need for children support is erased.   

[justW353]

Dumbest question ever?

[King]

Dumbest question ever?

This was just another Rochambeau formula question with an obvious answer to declare full support of the obvious.

"Should gravity exist? Yes or no?"
"I say Yes as it keeps life on Earth from floating into space."

"Do females have penises? Yes or no?"
"No.  I do not believe any do."

"In your opinion, is broccoli a vegetable?"
"Yes, I believe it qualifies as one."

I disagree with Eraserhead.  Rochambeau was the best troll there ever was.  He was able to plant seeds of rage in minds not through obvious trolling behavior but with a steady treatment of subtle absurdity.

And he should have banned before incepting us with the instruction to end our own lives.

[Lambsbread]

Is the Pope an Atheist?

[tpfkaw]

Is the Pope an Atheist?

Probably.

[Lambsbread]

Is the Pope an Atheist?

Probably.

Yeah, you're probably right...

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Lulz

[GMantis]

I'm not sure, but an leaning towards No, since forcing them to pay child support would decrease the number of people wanting to donate sperm.

Sounds as good an argument as any for a Yes vote.

Where exactly did this notion come from that procreation, and on-demand procreation with healthy children to boot, was some sort of human right, and a positive right at that?

While it's not exactly a right, procreating and raising children is one of the most important parts of life, so reasonable help should be given to those can't have children by normal means. I would say that sperm banks cover reasonable.

[milhouse24]

I've heard some times when lesbian couples divorce, they make the sperm donor pay child support, go figure.  it defeats the purpose of gay marriage.