FDA Warns Sperm Donor to Stop

(Fremont, California) A 36-year-old local man, Trent Arsenault, runs a sperm distribution operation where donors contact him via the Internet on his website trentdonor.org.

The FDA claims Arsenault is breaking the law.

Couples looking to conceive with donated sperm visit his web site and go through his medical records, which include information about his personality and background, childhood immunization records and the negative results of a battery of sexually transmitted disease (STD) tests.

If they want to go through with a donation, they'll send Arsenault a window of time when the woman will be ovulating. When she reaches the optimal time for conception, she contacts Arsenault, who stores a fresh sperm donation in a sterile cup for the woman to pick up.

So far, Arsenault has fathered 14 children.

Meanwhile, the FDA has sent Arsenault a letter demanding he cease donating sperm and shut down his website.