YEREVAN. – The women in Armenia have started resorting to sperm donors for pregnancy, Armenian Association for Reproductive Health Director, gynecologist Eduard Hambardzumyan informed during a press conference on Tuesday.

“Fortunately, the Armenian women have started resorting to this method. Why fortunately? Because in this case the matter refers to those couples whose men do not have sperm cells, or, it refers to single mothers who, understanding—by the age of forty—that they will not form a family, decide to have a child and go on with their lives,” Hambardzumyan said, and added that the women who resort to this method in Armenia do not who the sperm donor is, but the given medical facility knows and everything is checked out.       

In response to the query as to from which country the given sperms are imported to Armenia, the aforementioned association’s deputy director, gynecologist Karine Pokhunts stated that the sperms are solely local and Armenia does not need to import any sperms. “Why should we import when we have a healthy and a very good youth,” she added.