Black sperm donors represent less than 2 percent of all sperm donors at the country’s four largest cryobanks, according to a Washington Post analysis.

The severe shortage is forcing Black women who need donor sperm to conceive a child into a painful choice: Choose a donor of another race and raise a biracial child or try to buy sperm from unregulated apps and online groups.

The reasons for the shortage are myriad: failure among cryobanks to recruit Black donors; a selection process that demands a three-generation medical history (which may be challenging for Black men who may not have access to quality health care) and excludes donors with felony convictions; mistrust of the medical profession by Black men because of a legacy of historical discrimination. Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/20/black-sperm-donors/. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

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