Season 1 - Episode 5: "Is the Turkey Baster Thing Real..."
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Show Notes:
Health-related links:
The Longest Shortest Time Episode 153: https://longestshortesttime.com/episode-153-sperm-shopping-by-color/
Lambda Legal: https://www.lambdalegal.org/states-regions/in-your-state?gclid=CJDu1q-55dICFUO5wAodlCEB3w
Williams Institute: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Same-Sex-Parents-Jul-2018.pdf
Family Equality (2019) LGBTQ Family Building Survey. https://www.familyequality.org/fbs
Carone, N., Gartrell, N.K., Rothblum, E.D., Koh, A.S., & Bos, H.M.W. (2021) The Stability of Psychological Adjustment Among Donor-conceived Offspring in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study from Childhood to Adulthood: Differences by Donor Type, Fertility and Sterility, 115(5), 1302–1311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2020.12.012
National Survey of Children’s Health: https://www.childhealthdata.org/learn-about-the-nsch/archive-prior-year-data-documents-and-resources/2011-12-nsch
Stephanie Berman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0NNN-5SSbM
“Turkey-Baster Baby”: https://open.spotify.com/track/1GMK8sajViuODG58vfk3uh
Historical sources:
Daniels, Cynthia R, and Janet Golden. "Procreative Compounds: Popular Eugenics, Artificial Insemination and the Rise of the American Sperm Banking Industry." Journal of Social History 38, no. 1 (2004): 5-27. doi:10.1353/jsh.2004.0081.
May, Elaine Tyler. Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness. New York: BasicBooks, 1995.
“‘Proxy Baby,” News- week 55 (May 30, 1960): 80–81.
Richards, Martin. “Artificial Insemination and Eugenics: Celibate Motherhood, Eutelegenesis and Germinal Choice.” Studies in History & Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences 39, no. 2 (June 2008): 211–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2008.03.005.
Tallon-Hicks, Yana. “Starter Kit: Baby-making just got intimate.” Deneuve: the Lesbian Magazine (April 2013), 15.
“Test-Tube Test Case.” Time 64 (December 27, 1954): 52.
“Use of artificial insemination increasing” (AP), The News Tribune (Tacoma, Was.), December 5, 1978, p. 11.
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