The Truth About Sperm Banks
August, 1979
About 50 years ago, a woman we'll call Mrs. Holtman became Pregnant despite the fact that she and her husband hadn't had sex in years. Mr. Hoffman sued for divorce. Mrs. Hoffman's defense was that she had inseminated herself by putting some semen from her husband's nocturnal emission onto a candle. She won the cast in court.Artificial insemination has come a long way since then. About 400,000 people are now alive in the United States who were conceived that way. The procedure is performed perhap...
