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The first public record of donor insemination (DI) was in the USA in the 1880s.  It was carried out without the woman’s knowledge but the doctor told her husband afterwards.   By the mid twentieth century, there were several UK clinics but DI (then and for a long time afterwards was called Artificial Insemination by Donor…

Below is a letter that a Recipient Mother received from Margaret Jackson in 1980, after she wrote to Margaret Jackson saying that she had read an article (see the article in question below) that stated that children conceived by Artificial Insemination by Donor Semen (AID as it was known in 1980, now Donor Conceived) should…

Name: Stuart Donated: 2006 – 2007 Where donated: Esperance Hospital, Eastbourne I was a donor at the Esperance Hospital in Eastbourne between 2006 and 2007, when I was 34. At the time, it felt like a straightforward and positive thing to do; a way to help people who wanted to become parents. Now, nearly two decades later, the…

Name: Maggie Conceived: 1944 Where conceived: Margaret Jackson clinic, Exeter I discovered I was Donor Conceived last year when I was 80 years old, after doing an ancestry test. Luckily for me it wasn’t a complete shock as I had suspected this for many years. I knew my mother had been a patient of Dr. Margaret…

Name: Amy Conceived: 1996 Where Conceived: Coventry, UK In March 2026, I went back home for the weekend and my whole life changed. My Mum sat me down and dropped a huge bombshell on me. She said my Dad was not my biological father. I had actually been conceived through IVF using donor sperm.  To say this information…

I wanna talk about how deep and complex and difficult and slow figuring out our feelings can be about being conceived this way. I wanna say that I don’t agree with the kind of assessments and percentage type questionnaires that have potential parents going ‘see it’s ok because the HFEA website states that statistically donor…

Risk of consanguinity with a cousin or a 2nd cousin. Been done to them. Have no control over this, at all.

Anonymous Donors Anyone conceived before August 1991 will have an anonymous donor. Using an anonymous Donor is unethical. Using an anonymous Donor, in any capacity and regardless of when identity release is made available, is NOT in the best interests of the DCP. Known Donors Known Donors are donors that are known to the Recipient…