Posted February 24, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Deirdre Fishel
filed under: media, thinking, ChoiceChat, resources, emotions
Choice Chat
submitted by Deirdre Fishel
I began filming "Sperm Donor X," a 54-minute documentary, when I was 40 and found myself at a precipice. I wanted to have a biological child, yet doing it alone with donor sperm felt bizarre and terrifying. I had no idea how my story would end and I wanted to find other women facing the same turning point.
I filmed myself and three other women for two years, then stopped because I wasn't sure I wanted to put out such a personal film. But I started again, because not a day goes by, now that I'm a Choice Mom, when I don’t look at my kids and feel grateful that I made this choice.
Every month I meet smart, talented, beautiful women in their thirties and early forties who want children and yet are afraid of doing it alone. My fervent wish with this documentary is to normalize a process that felt foreign to me and to show that there are so many ways to be a family. Women having kids alone with donor sperm is just one of them, and it can be incredible. The documentary takes the viewer on an intimate journey from the bizarreness of picking a donor over the Internet to the creation of joyous alternative families of both biological and adopted children.
To see a trailer about the movie, or purchase it, click here.
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