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This is Doran Blake, Seven Weeks.
Yes, Doran is a boy.
A very happy little boy it appears, and clearly very impressed with me.
Doran is our country's second sperm bank baby, having been born following the artificial
insemination of his mother, who is with us.
She is Afton Blake, PhD, a clinical psychologist, in practice.
She is not married, but clearly subscribes to the thesis which has been offered by, among
others, Robert Graham, who is founder of what he calls the Repository for Germinal Choice.
I feel like I'm doing a Sunday morning prayer service here.
I don't want to disturb this baby.
Dr. Graham is also the man who 35 years ago developed the first plastic spectacle of the
kind that I am using now.
He is, because of that enormous contribution to optics and people who need correct vision,
a quite a wealthy man.
He's also clearly a man who believes that the intelligence of a child is very much determined
by the intelligence of his parents or her parents.
And he is underway now with an effort to collect sperm from male donors who are, after scientific
review, determined to be exceptionally gifted.
That sperm is placed in a vial at minus 196 degrees Fahrenheit, frozen, for indefinite
shelf life.
On the occasion of the presentation of a mother who was hopeful of receiving one of these
sperms for purpose of impregnation, she chooses the sperm according to the information provided
her about the sperm donor.
She doesn't know the donor's name.
She perhaps knows the color of the donor's eyes, the height, the race, and so on.
Then she, presumably a person also gifted, gives birth, it is hoped, to an exceptionally
gifted child.
Dr. Graham feels, among other things, that in recent years we as inhabitants of the planet
have apparently gone out of our way to reproduce less than talented people.
In any event, it's his belief that the number of gifted, talented people is diminishing
on the planet, and this is his attempt to correct it.
And that's the end of our show, and thank you all very much.
How am I doing?
That's a beautiful summary.
Am I all right here, Dr. Graham?
That's a very accurate summary, Phil.
Okay, let's talk about numbers here.
This is the world's second sperm bank baby, the first having been born to a woman who
turned out to be not quite who she had claimed to be.
This is quite a public relations embarrassment for you, I assume.
This is a woman who had a background of child abuse and also was a convicted felon.
So one of our problems now is that how are you going to figure out who's telling the
truth?
We can't always.
In fact, in life that's sometimes a problem in other situations.
But at least we now ask 20 times more bits of information about the individuals than
we did when we started.
I don't have to tell you that you've created a storm of controversy with this.
First of all, it's emotionally and politically offensive to millions of people who see this
as a manipulative way to perhaps reproduce one kind of person.
It also is unbecomingly close to the whole Nazi approach to the human condition, wherein
these people thought we should have an Aryan race and everyone else should be destroyed.
How do you respond to those criticisms?
Phil, if you look at it from the standpoint of the recipient, the recipient is a lady
who with her husband wants a child.
But her husband being infertile can't do the job.
So they turn to us.
Those are the people we serve.
And since we can provide the sperm that will make that woman a mother, we try to collect
the finest sperm available, the brightest fathers, the brightest males with no serious
hereditary defects.
The system of preservation enables us to go to donors anyplace in the world and preserve
their sperm and offer it to a woman anyplace in the world.
And since the child will have to spend his life with the genes that he gets from his
father as well as those from his mother, why not give him the best genes we can give him?
I don't see anything Hitlerian in that.
Yeah, but you certainly may.
Let me establish.
This is Paul Smith, who has not recently escaped from the operating room.
He wishes to retain his anonymity because of the work he does.
He is a research officer for the Repository for Germinal Choice.
He is the man who solicits candidates for sperm donorship.
He goes about the country, I assume, to campuses and other places where you're likely to meet
gifted males.
And I assume you approach them and your pitch is a little bit more complicated than how
about donating some sperm.
You know, I mean, I don't think that's not quite the way you'd open the conversation,
I trust.
Well, I introduce myself, tell him I'm from the Repository for Germinal Choice, and I'd
like to tell him something about our program in the hope that he might consider becoming
a donor.
Right.
How do you know who to approach?
Well, at the outset, we went for Nobel laureates, but we've broadened our fields now.
This is partly because we find that there's enormous talent in certain other fields which
aren't covered by the Nobel Prize.
One, for example, is mathematics.
The number of talented men in mathematics far exceeds that number of men in those areas
of physics which are covered by the Nobel Prize.
I see.
So mathematics attracts some of the most able talent, and those who go to the top in it
are remarkable.
And finding achievers in math would be rather easy, wouldn't it?
There is a very prestigious award which has the same status as the Nobel Prize in science,
but I also depend heavily on what...
Excuse me.
I'm just going to upstage you here for a second.
Mr. Star.
Hello, baby.
I know.
I know, honey.
You're such a good baby.
This child is a star.
All right.
I think we get it, and because it's so complicated, let's see how much information we can share
here before we give this audience time.
Let me just clear up one possible misconception.
You mentioned earlier, like the possible resemblance between us and Hitler, one of the things you
mentioned was Aryan.
Now when our applicants are accepted, we send them our catalog, and that gives as much information
about each donor as possible without revealing his identity.
And in fact, our most popular donor, far from being Aryan, is Jewish.
It is also true that some of your patients, Dr. Blake, are Jewish, and many of them have
great misgivings about what you've done here.
How would you characterize their statements to you, their expression of their own feelings?
Well, I think because of some of the prejudices and misunderstandings about what the sperm
bank is doing, which certainly is understandable, that they have been distressed.
You keep using words like good genes, finest sperm.
The problem with that is it suggests that there is inferior sperm, and that opens the
door to some people concluding that perhaps whole groups of people have inferior sperm,
and I don't have to tell you about the consequence of that kind of thesis.
When Genetis speaks about good genes, what he means is genes which adapt the organism
to the environment it's going to find itself in.
For example, genes, a dairy breeder by good genes, he means those genes which promote
high milk output, high butter fat content, longevity, whereas when we're talking about
humans, what I mean by good genes is those genes which promote the qualities which we
most want in humans, both those qualities for health and happiness and those qualities
which are most uniquely human.
And if it works in veterinary medicine, you're saying why can't it work among us so-called
smarter humans?
The same genetic laws apply to the fruit fly and the human alike.
I don't have to tell you that you have gigantic minds in the field of genetics, behavior,
biochemistry, biology, and evolution who will tell you that the gift of the offspring has
much more to do, if not exclusively to do, as some hold, with nurture rather than nature,
and that if you want to ensure a gifted or achieving child, the best way to do it is to
raise it in a loving, positive, supportive way.
What are your feelings about that?
Well, we think that's entirely accurate, but also part of the individual's net result is
his inheritance.
Now, we can't do much part in the environment in which the child is raised.
We can give them as good a start as human skill knows how to do.
How many sperm donors do you have?
How many sperm have you got frozen on the shelf?
Different collection.
About a dozen different donors.
In fact, the amount varies, one of our donors, we do 700 most of the time, even though he's
very popular, he's also very productive.
Would you accept a sperm from a black male?
This past week, I tried very hard to persuade the most gifted black male to become a donor,
and he was friendly but declined the invitation.
If a male donates a sperm to you, does he know if his sperm has been chosen by a recipient?
In the past, it was my practice to tell them, but I may not do that so often in the future
because there's a tendency for them to read about the baby and the mother in the press.
Mind you, the vast majority of our recipients choose not to go public, but we don't try
to encourage them one way or the other.
If I tell a donor that one of his admirers in Chicago is expecting a baby...