Donor anonymity comes to an end in Victoria, Australia
People conceived using donor eggs or sperm now have a legal right to identifiable information about their biological parents in Victoria, Australia...
A name given in 2013 to a voluntary information and contact register that enables donor-conceived people, their donors and their half-siblings to exchange information and (where desired) contact one another. The register is for anyone over 18 who donated or was donor-conceived in the UK prior to August 1991.
by Rikita Patel
People conceived using donor eggs or sperm now have a legal right to identifiable information about their biological parents in Victoria, Australia...
by Wendy Kramer
In the US, the donor-conception industry is largely unregulated, and there is wide variation in egg- and sperm-bank policies and procedures. Problems often arise as a result of lack of consistency around medical testing, health history follow-up, sharing
by Ryan Ross
A Canadian fertility doctor is facing a class action lawsuit by the families of some of his former patients, who allege that he used his own sperm in donor-conception procedures without their knowledge or consent...
Birth registration seems to be an increasingly 'unstraightforward' procedure for many. Given the impact that birth registration has on wider society, effective law reform cannot be implemented without asking wider questions about the role and purpose of birth registration in contemporary society, as opposed to piecemeal reform of a system that was designed to meet the needs of the early Victorian era...
New Zealand is facing a shortage of donor sperm, with some fertility experts saying women are waiting up to two years to receive treatment...
by Dr Kamal Ahuja and 2 others
The notion persists that sperm donation in Britain limps ahead in a state of perpetual crisis: difficulties at the much vaunted national sperm bank, imports of donor sperm flooding in from Denmark, and UK donors terrified of disclosing their identity. Yet nothing could be further from the truth...
by Rachel Siden
Donor-conceived children born to single women are equally well adjusted as those from two-parent donor-conceived families, according to a recent UK study examining the views of single mothers and children aged between four and nine years old...
by Professor Joyce Harper and 2 others
With the rise of consumer genetic testing, it is now possible for people to accidentally discover that they were conceived using donor eggs or sperm and for donors who thought they were anonymous to be traced by their offspring...
by Professor Eric Blyth and 1 others
The Government of Victoria should be applauded for confronting a dilemma that so many others have avoided...
by Dr Sonia Allan and 1 others
The state parliament of Victoria in Australia has passed legislation that will enable all donor-conceived people to receive identifying information about their sperm, oocyte, or embryo donor(s). The model adopted is a world first in its application to donor conception...
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