Insemination

Jan 31 2025 50 ep. 75 mins 64

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Follow comedian and sperm donor baby Laura High as she dives into to the terrifying world of donor conception and the infertility industry. This unregulated unethical multi-billion industry has created an InsemiNATION. And we are going to fix it together.

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Episode 49: Embryo Adoptee

Jan 31 2025 71 mins

Kelsey shares her story of being an embryo adoptee. She dives head first into the nuance of ethics surrounding embryo adoption, and describes what it was like finding out that she is an embryo adoptee, reconnecting to her biological family, and figuring out what this means to her.

Episode 48: Known Donor Family

Jan 26 2025 65 mins

In this inspirational episode we listen to two donor conceived brothers who were raised in two different family units, but both of their parents chose to use a known donor from birth from a LGBTQIA focused clinic in California. Listening to both of them describe how supportive their parents and donor/dad have been throughout their lives is just heart warming. This episode is filled

Insemination 47: Problematic Egg Donor

Jan 17 2025 80 mins

Claire-Lise is an egg donor conceived person who discusses her journey as a late discovery, what it feels like watching countless egg donor recruitment ads, and finding her egg donor who turned out to be very problematic

Episode 46 Nightmare Counselor

Jan 10 2025 62 mins

‘Sarah’ is a recipient parent who unfortunately not only had to see a nightmare counselor from the clinic, but also watched one of her children get very sick and told by the hospital that the only way they could confirm his illness is by doing a blood test on both genetic parents.

Episode 45 Triple Threat

Jan 03 2025 76 mins

Freya is not only donor conceived, but she is also recipient parent and a known egg donor. She has such a unique perspective and brings so much nuance to the conversation. She is also born and raised in The Uk so we learn a little bit more about how that donor conception market functions

Episode 44: Donor Conception and Comedy

Jul 10 2024 76 mins

Chelsea Devantez is not just donor conceived but also a renowned comedian. Her credits include being the head writer for ‘The Problem with Jon Stewart’. Today Chelsea is sharing her donor conception experience and her new book which you can find here: https://www.chelsearosedevantez.com/the-book

Episode 43: Sperm Donor Experience

Jun 15 2024 51 mins

Meet Mark a sperm donor from Xytex who walks us through his experience working with the bank and then being available as a known donor.

Episode 42: Egg Whisperer

May 23 2024 55 mins

Welcome Dr. Aimee aka the Egg Whisperer! Dr. Aimee is here to talk to us about egg donation, causes for infertility, what to look for in a doctor, infertility trauma, and the changes she would like to see happen to the fertility industry.

Episode 41: Contracts with Known Donors

May 14 2024 70 mins

Meet attorney Amanda Troxler from California who handles known donor agreements. Amanda is going to walk us through what is required to do a legally safe known donation.

Episode 40: Racism and Eugenics

May 01 2024 70 mins

FULL DISCLOSURE I filmed the intro a few weeks ago, I'm not about to go perform in Cleveland. I already did, it was wonderful. I apologize for the blooper, it's been a wild few weeks and I'm catching up. This episode is with a good friend and another DCP advocate Eric. Eric is a late discovery DCP who has been diving into the foundation of donor conception which is eug