PJ: Do what I say not what I do....
Sydney Morning Herald
US politician helps out with sperm
A CONSERVATIVE US politician has donated sperm to several New Zealand women without the knowledge of his wife or fertility doctors.
Bill Johnson, who unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Alabama in 2009, has spent most of this year in Christchurch, working as the New Zealand recovery manager for international disaster recovery company Ceres.
He has used the persona ''chchbill'' on online donor registries to meet women wishing to get pregnant.
Mr Johnson discussed making donations to at least nine women, and three are now pregnant, while he has also assisted a further three with donations in the past month.
That has sparked concern among fertility medicine specialists, who say donors should not make sperm available to more than four families, to prevent accidental incest and lessen the stress donors and children face if they meet.
Mr Johnson told New Zealand's Herald on Sunday he believes he has stayed inside the limit.
But he admitted some of the women were unaware of his other donations.
He said he was unable to have children with his wife, Kathy, who remains in the US, and while she knew he wanted to be a sperm donor, she was unaware of the pregnancies.
He was not planning to tell her until children were born.
The women included a number of lesbian couples - despite Mr Johnson campaigning on a conservative Christian platform which opposed gay marriage.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-politician-helps-out-with-sperm-20111211-1opn4.html
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