Monday, July 19th, 2004
Scripps Clinic Fertility Center
Since its founding in 1979, thousands of couples have found new hope at Scripps Clinic’s Fertility Center at Torrey Pines.
The Fertility Center was established to find innovative new treatments to help couples overcome fertility problems and to provide the support necessary to reduce the emotional distress associated with them.
Scripps Clinic Fertility Center
10666 N. Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
619-554-8680
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
San Diego Fertility Center
SDFC offers comprehensive services for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and represents one of the largest Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) programs in the region.
Their services include sperm retrieval for advanced IVF.
San Diego Fertility Cente
15725 Pomerado Road, Suite 204
Poway, CA 92064
619-673-0885
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
Repository for Germinal Choice
The Repository For Germinal Choice collects germinal material from outstandingly intelligent and healthy men and makes it available to married couples who want children, increasing the chances of giving their children a genetically advantaged start in life.
It also enables outstanding men to have more offspring than they would have otherwise, thereby puting more of humankind’s best genes into the human gene pool.
The Repository has been doing this on a pilot scale since 1980. The web site comments that Humankind is far from perfect but can be improved gradually by increasing the proportion of advantageous genes in the human gene pool.
Repository for Germinal Choice
4450 S. Escondido Blvd, PO Box 2876
Escondido CA 92025
619-743-0772
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
Fertility Center of California
Fertility Center of California (FCC) was established in 1980 as a semen bank serving physicians and their patients who required reproductive services, artificial insemination and sperm banking.
Since 1993, FCC has been licensed as a clinical laboratory and has evolved into a more comprehensive reproductive laboratory assisting physicians and/or their patients.
Fertility Center of California
1125 East 17th Street W-120
Santa Ana CA 92701
714-953-5683
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
Fairfax Cryobank provides sperm cryopreservation and sperm storage services (sperm banking) for men undergoing oncology treatments.
The success of cancer treatments (chemotherapy and radiation therapy) today require that the reproductive life of the patient be considered. Testicular cancer in particular is a disease that strikes young men.
Sperm freezing prior to, or in the early stages of, treatment offers men the security of knowing that the possibility of fatherhood is preserved.
Fairfax Cryobank
707 W 34th St, Austin, TX 78705
(512) 206-0408
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
The prime center for reproductive health services in Dallas seems to be Baylor Center for Reproductive Health, a part of Baylor University.
Baylor Center for Reproductive Health
Baylor Center for Reproductive Health is one of the few centers with its own ethics committee comprised of physicians, clergy and lay people whose mission it is to examine the moral issues surrounding assisted pregnancy and to develop and uphold strict ethical standards for the facility.
Since most religious denominations have not yet formed a policy regarding these new technological developments, Baylor works with only married, heterosexual couples.
1-800-4BAYLOR
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
The West Houston Fertility Center, Ltd.
The West Houston Fertility Center, Ltd., provides high quality semen analyses to physicians in the West Houston community.
As laboratory director, Steven Anderson, Ph.D., reviews all laboratory results and is responsible for assuring that the lab test ordered is appropriate to meet clinical expectations.
The West Houston Fertility Center, Ltd
920 Frostwood Drive, Suite 680, Houston, Texas 77024
713.830.9156 (clinical coordinator)
fax: 713.465.6829
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
Baylor College of Medicine
It is surprising that a metropolitan area like Houston only has two clinics, plus one at Baylor University (see the Dallas listings for information on Baylor’s program). The clinics offer straightforward infertility services, and make no comments about whether they serve gay and lesbian couples wishing to become parents.
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston TX
713-798-4001
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
ZyGen Laboratory
Their name best describes their mission – assistance in Zygote Generation, the zygote being the first cell produced after penetration of sperm into the egg.
They say they were the first to introduce washed frozen semen in straws, and currently provide all the services of an andrology laboratory including, but not limited to, different types of frozen anonymous donor semen, sex-selected frozen semen, sex election on fresh directed (private) donor semen, computerized semen analysis, and semen and blood testing of semen donors.
ZyGen Laboratory
16742 Stagg Street, Suite 105
Van Nuys CA 91406
1-800-255-7242, 1-818-988-2500
fax: 1-818-988-2734
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
Pacific Reproductive Services, Los Angeles (PRS) is a sperm bank with offices in San Francisco and Pasadena, California.
Services are available to any woman but their primary customer base is the lesbian community. California law says that a man who provides his semen to a licensed sperm bank for the purpose of inseminating a woman who is not his wife, is not seen as a natural father to any subsequent offspring.
Thereby, the parental rights of the recipient of the sperm are protected, and the donor is protected from having parental responsibility. The anonymous donor’s identity is not revealed to the recipient or any children born from his sperm.
Pacific Reproductive Services does offer an ID Release option, which allows for offspring to meet their donor after they reach legal age. We ask that our donors consider agreeing to be known to any children when they reach the age of adulthood, which in California is eighteen years old.
This entails signing a legal contract agreeing to a one-time meeting with the child, if requested by the child at or after the age of eighteen. After this meeting the donor’s obligation has been fulfilled and no further contact is required, unless both donor and offspring mutually agree to it.
Pacific Reproductive Services
65 N. Madison Avenue, Suite 409
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626) 440-7450
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