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04/13/2009: "Childless Indian couples demand to know 'caste' of sperm donors"

Childless couples in India are demanding to know the caste of sperm donors before going ahead with fertility treatment, leading gynecologists have confirmed.

Campaigners for India's 'untouchable' caste - who perform degrading jobs and suffer violence and persecution - on Monday night denounced the practice and said it highlighted how low-caste "dalits" were discriminated against even before conception.

The practice emerged in Bihar, one of India's poorest, backward and caste-ridden states, where high-caste Brahmins and Yadavs believe they will be polluted if their wives bear a child whose natural father is a "dalit".

[ There are more than enough Indians in the world. This article fails to point out that the lower caste Indians who are considered undesirable genetically as biological fathers for higher caste families are hypocrites since any lower caste Indian woman would also sooner have the sperm of a high caste Indian. ]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/5115961/Childless-Indian-couples-demand-to-know-caste-of-sperm-donors.html