Table 6. Attitudes towards each type of third-party reproduction assuming the respondents cannot conceive in other ways.
| donor sperm | donor egg | donor embryo | gestational surrogacy | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sex | infertility | group | N | want to use | want to use, if my spouse wishes | not want to use, even if my spouse wishes | want to use | want to use, if my spouse wishes | not want to use, even if my spouse wishes | want to use | want to use, if my spouse wishes | not want to use, even if my spouse wishes | want to use | want to use, if my spouse wishes | not want to use, even if my spouse wishes |
| total | 2500 | 1.7% | 23.2% | 75.1% | 1.6% | 25.2% | 73.2% | 1.6% | 21.4% | 76.9% | 2.6% | 26.5% | 70.9% | ||
| male | + | A | 122 | 4.1% | 27.9% D | 68.0% | 5.7% B,D | 33.6% C,D | 60.7% | 4.1% D | 28.7% C,D | 67.2% | 3.3% | 35.2% C,D | 61.5% |
| - | B | 1128 | 1.5% | 27.5% C,D | 71.0% | 1.2% | 33.0% C,D | 65.8% | 1.5% | 29.6% C,D | 68.9% | 2.2% | 34.0% C,D | 63.7% | |
| female | + | C | 236 | 2.5% | 18.6% | 78.7% A,B | 2.1% | 17.4% | 80.5% A,B | 2.5% | 12.3% | 85.2% A,B | 1.7% | 20.3% | 78.0% A,B |
| - | D | 1014 | 1.5% | 18.8% | 79.7% A,B | 1.5% | 17.3% | 81.3% A,B | 1.3% | 13.6% | 85.1% A,B | 3.1% | 18.5% | 78.4% A,B | |
A,B,C,D denotes significantly high compared to group A, B, C, or D respectively (P<0.05).