A personal donation Donors of sperm are in the news, too. For decades now young men in the prime of virility have given sperm so that infertile couples can have babies. There is a modest fee and perhaps a modest pleasure. But they have done it to help others. Now there is a move to change all that.
Openness is again the plea.
I've met the children of sperm-donors deeply traumatised by the knowledge they came, as they put it, out of a test tube. Some sort of compromise is clearly called for. The donation that has no strings and one we might each need any day is blood donation. They don't appear in any Honours List - but they deserve our New Year respect all the same.