Woman Between Islam and Western Society
4. The Problems Facing Modern Civilization
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adherence to a new set of man-made principles
which has had so deleterious an effect.
ARTIFICIAL PROBLEMS
The unique Nobel Sperm Bank set up by Dr. Robert
Graham, a California millionaire, preserves the
sperm of Nobel prizewinners so that women, who
wish to produce children of above-average
intelligence, may be impregnated with it. Dr.
Graham established this bank with the aim of
compensating for sterility on the part of husbands.
But now, unmarried women — such is the degree of
modem, western permissiveness — are coming
forward to avail of the bank’s facilities. More
interested in bearing above-average children, they
prefer to ignore the possibilities of marriage, and
freely seek the assistance of the bank.
One such unmarried mother is forty-year-old Dr.
Afton Blake of California. When she contacted the
Nobel Sperm Bank and explained the kind of child
she wanted, she was advised that sperm number 28
was what she needed. (Donors of sperm remain
unnamed, and are given a code number.) Dr. Blake
duly became pregnant with the specially selected
