A Senate inquiry into rules governing sperm and egg donation in Australia will stop accepting submissions on Friday.
Issues up for discussion include payments for donors, the number of offspring born from each donor, and the rights of donor conceived persons.
A same-sex couple wrote to complain about time constraints placed on using sperm from the same donor, as well as the number of women that could use sperm from the same donor under NSW’s Assisted Reproductive Technology Act.
“As of January 1 2010 the definition of how many people were allowed to use the same donor in Australia [changed to] ‘how many women’ rather than … ‘how many families’,” the couple wrote.
“I cant see any reasonable reason for this change in legislation which would only affect lesbians. It seems very homophobic.”
Most submissions to the inquiry have been from donor-conceived children calling for the same rights to information about their donors as adopted persons have about biological parents.
For more on this case follow the link: http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2010/07/28/sperm-donor-inquiry-to-close/28603
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