About Us
The Sperm Donor Abuse Foundation is a small unincorporated charity. It was established to raise awareness about the violence(s) and harms women can encounter when they use the Internet to find men 'donating' sperm. Women are increasingly turning to unregulated sperm donor websites, including Facebook groups, on account of the high costs associated with donor insemination (DI) through fertility clinics, which can cost thousands of pounds. In a nutshell, many women are experiencing medical/health inequalities and cannot afford to access the safer environment of a medical fertility clinic and feel that their only hope to have a child is to use the unregulated route. A smaller proportion of women, however, feel a fertility clinic is not for them and instead prioritise private sperm donation. Whatever reason leads women to unregulated Internet sperm donor websites, 1 in 2 will go on to experience some form of violence, victimisation or personal harm, whilst trying to conceive, during their pregnancy, or after their child is born.
The SDA Foundation believes that it is each and every woman's Human Right to have a safe journey to motherhood, irrespective of the route she chooses.
What we believe:
The SDA Foundation believes that it is every woman's human right to conceive a child without violence and abuse, irrespective of her route to conception.
Our mission:
The SDA Foundation is striving to increase and share knowledge about the serious risks and dangers women face when they use unregulated sperm donor websites and social networking sites to find men to assist them with conception. We are committed to increasing knowledge of violence and abuse perpetrated by men using unregulated internet sperm donation websites. It is unacceptable that 1 in 2 women who go online to find an unregulated sperm donor will experience violence and abuse.
The Sperm Donor Abuse Foundation aims to:
The SDA Foundation believes that it is each and every woman's Human Right to have a safe journey to motherhood, irrespective of the route she chooses.
What we believe:
The SDA Foundation believes that it is every woman's human right to conceive a child without violence and abuse, irrespective of her route to conception.
Our mission:
The SDA Foundation is striving to increase and share knowledge about the serious risks and dangers women face when they use unregulated sperm donor websites and social networking sites to find men to assist them with conception. We are committed to increasing knowledge of violence and abuse perpetrated by men using unregulated internet sperm donation websites. It is unacceptable that 1 in 2 women who go online to find an unregulated sperm donor will experience violence and abuse.
The Sperm Donor Abuse Foundation aims to:
- Conduct policy research into sperm donor abuse.
- Raise public and policy awareness about sperm donor abuse, which is largely invisible.
- Educate and train agencies and the general public about the extent of sperm donor abuse, its effects, and how it can be prevented.
- Knowledge share with midwifery and antenatal services to identify pregnant women at risk and thus increase the support available to women who have been, or are, currently being abused by men assisting with conception.
- Signpost and refer women onto support services who are currently experiencing, or have historically experienced, violence or harm by a man 'donating' his gametes (sperm) via unregulated websites.