‘Wanted: a few good sperm’

Interesting NYT magazine article on “single mothers by choice” — working women who are choosing to use sperm donors to get pregnant.

One woman, a 40-year-old graduate student in biology in the Midwest, told me shortly after her first insemination: “One of the things that was so powerful about deciding to have a baby on my own was saying, I’m taking charge of this piece of it; I’m not going to wait around for a guy to give it to me.”