While the first baby conceived with a donated egg was not born until 1987 , the first documented case of donor insemination took place in 1884 , when the philadelphia - based doctor william pan coast inseminated a sedated woman with a medical student ' s sperm without her permission or knowledge 而通过捐献者的精子进行人工授精最早发生于1884年。当时，费城的医生威廉潘科斯特在事先没有征得当事人同意的情况下，用一个医学院学生的精子给一位服了镇静剂的妇女人工授精。
It ' s also helpful to cultivate male supporters he said . " it has been 30 years since i was a medical student " barres recalled " but i still recall with gratitude the young male student who immediately complained to a professor who had shown a slide of a nude pinup in his anatomy lecture . 不过，巴里斯也并不认为萨默斯这样的科学家不公正，对此他在刊登在自然上的文章中说， “因为我们生长的文化环境对待女性和男性有不同的标准，人们很自然地对天生就受到的歧视视而不见。 ”
