1.   Her husband was infertile so they conceived using a sperm donor.

2.   Or they can get a male relative of the father to be a sperm donor, if such a relative exists.

3.   Ammiano, who lost his longtime companion to AIDS, has a teen-age daughter he helped conceive as a sperm donor.

4.   A popular profile for sperm donors calls for the man to be tall, with blue eyes and dimples.

5.   A lot of male students at Berkeley are putting themselves through college by becoming paid sperm donors.

6.   But women who do not have partners need sperm donors to produce embryos, an option that many reject.

7.   Francey Liefert, left, and her partner, Laurel Liefert, chose the same open-identity sperm donor when they decided to have children.

8.   Her mother and sister-in-law have gone so far as to suggest an old family friend as the sperm donor.

9.   Ms. Garber and her father, Dr. Howard Garber, a retired optometrist, selected a sperm donor from a sperm bank to fertilize her eggs.

10.   Oates said other options include using a sperm donor, or adoption.