The Victorian Government has tabled the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Amendment Bill 2015 in parliament this week (25 November 2015) proposing to change the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008. The proposed donor conception laws, if passed, will give rights to people conceived using donated sperm, [...]
Sonia Allan Over the past 50 years, assisted reproduction using donor sperm (and more recently, eggs and embryos) has been both celebrated – for enabling people to have children – and derided for religious, moral and social [...]
Sonia Allan comments upon the long and winding road faced by donor-conceived people seeking information about their genetic heritage, and the announcement that the Victorian government intend to change laws to enable all donor-conceived people equal access [...]