{"id":7992,"date":"2003-07-13T21:03:28","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T02:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/07\/13\/religious-sperm\/"},"modified":"2003-07-13T21:03:28","modified_gmt":"2003-07-14T02:03:28","slug":"religious-sperm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/07\/religious-sperm\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Sperm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">It&#8217;s not the physical attributes or medical history of sperm donors that worry many Indian couples opting for assisted reproduction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Their main concern is religion, a report said yesterday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Infertility specialists in the western city of Bombay said two in every 10 couples contemplating in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) insisted on knowing the religion of the donor, the Asian Age newspaper reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Gynaecologist Hrishikesh Pai said: &#8220;Recently a couple insisted the sperm be from a Catholic donor. After a lot of counselling, they agreed to a general donor. Muslims, too, are particular about the religion of the donor.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">One couple from the Parsi community decided to remain childless after their request for a Parsi donor was turned down, the report said. <br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2003\/07\/13\/1058034876994.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Now a faithful Catholic sperm would know that IVF is always wrong and would refuse to mingle in the petri dish.  Maybe he would protest and ask for &#8220;conscientious injector&#8221; status.  It is pretty ironic that a Catholic couple would use IVF and then be concerned that the sperm be from a Catholic donor.  I guess knowledge of the faith is no better in India then it is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the physical attributes or medical history of sperm donors that worry many Indian couples opting for assisted reproduction. Their main concern is religion, a report said yesterday. Infertility&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}