Gay men may have a hard time getting married but Lesbians can get pregnant!!! and this is thanks to Sherron Mills, the founder of Pacific Reproductive Services (PRS), a sperm bank and fertility center that has served lesbian couples and single women for 25 years. By launching this service in 1984, at a time when the vast majority of sperm donors were anonymous (as preferred by infertile opposite-sex couples), Mills “changed the face of sperm donation,” the editors of a San Francisco culture magazine said. Despite the increasing number of clinics and sperm banks willing to work with lesbians, Mills still feels "there is a need for ones that will give extra support to lesbians and their relationships through the sometimes lengthy process of trying to get pregnant".
Both PRS and The Sperm Bank of California serve a largely lesbian clientele, as do a handful of others, such as Rainbow Flag Health Services in San Francisco, which specializes in matching prospective mothers with donors who wish to be known when the child is still a minor.
“It was exciting to have our work in the lesbian community recognized in a mainstream magazine,” Mills said. “It was particularly gratifying to have the magazine note the major struggle lesbians faced in the early 80’s to find a sperm bank willing to serve them and physicians willing to provide them insemination services. . . . Sometimes it is easy to forget how far we have come.” This article shows how medical advances are able to help women in many ways who want to build a family despite of sexual preferrence. In general medical advances is always growing for the benefit of people all around us and the world, yet it sets in me a sense of happiness that at least in the gay community men and women alike are able to share family values.
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