Scotland is suffering a shortage of sperm donors, so Glasgow's Royal Infirmary has become the first in the British Isles to be allowed to import sperm.
The infirmary will import from a Danish clinic, says Reuters, where the world's biggest sperm bank is located. The Scottish facility tells the wire service their donors went from 15 to just a few from fear they'd lose their anonymity if the law ever changed.
That, in turn, prompted the British Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority to ease its normally tough sperm import rules. But it will insist the Danish clinic match the high safety standards Britain enforces.
That means the Danish donors giving information including their name, though British law says that information cannot be passed on to patient or child.
An estimated one in six British couples is infertile, Reuters says.
