2008-08-11
The Age
Just another family asking for fairness
IN COMING weeks, state MPs will be asked to examine their consciences in relation to a bill that has enormous implications for me and my family, and for many other families like mine.
2008-08-11
Australian Women Online
Help for parents of donor conceived children
Parents of donor-conceived children are desperately looking for help when trying to tell their children how they were conceived, according to the Infertility Treatment Authority (ITA).
2008-01-26
The Australian
Healers high on awards list
EMINENT Australians in the field of medicine received a number of Australia Day awards.
2007-08-08
The Age
Children need the truth of their donated conception
IT'S Time to Tell. The slogan is back, along with the second phase of the Infertility Treatment Authority's campaign to inform parents about how Victoria's infertility laws may affect their lives and parenting choices.
2007-06-08
Herald Sun
Undecided: Cabinet split looms on IVF
PREMIER Steve Bracks will decide whether lesbians and single women can get IVF treatment in Victoria despite a looming clash in Cabinet. The Law Reform Commission yesterday recommended sweeping changes that would allow gay couples to adopt children and free up IVF for single women and lesbians.
2007-06-07
State Government of Victoria
HULLS TABLES VLRC REPORT ON ASSISTED REPRODUCTION, SURROGACY AND ADOPTION
The report of the Victorian Law Reform Commission (VLRC) on assisted reproductive technology and adoption was tabled in State Parliament today. Attorney General Rob Hulls thanked the VLRC for producing an extensive and detailed report.
2007-06-02
The Australian
Children of a lesser god
WHEN it comes to in-vitro fertilisation and related reproductive technology, debate tends to centre on the right of all women - single, infertile, post-menopausal or lesbian - to have a child.
2007-05-29
Herald Sun
Half of me is missing
Permalink Professor Margaret Somerville makes extraordinarily good sense - especially for for an ethicist - as she discusses her objection to creating test-tube babies who will never know their real father.
2007-05-16
Brisbane Times
Tell donor kids they're not yours: researcher
People conceived with the help of donor sperm who don't find out until later in life can experience feelings of resentment and a loss of control over their life story, according to a QUT researcher.
2007-04-02
The Age
Life after death: a matter of consent
A WOMAN should be able to have her partner's sperm removed after he dies and use it to conceive a baby without his written consent, according to an expert on medical law.
2007-03-05
Sydney Morning Herald
Burden of truth
JOSIE Ferraro* has spent the past several months daydreaming in the way familiar to most mothers- to-be. With her first child due this month, she has found herself wondering about the baby growing inside her imagining what it will be when it grows up, if it will have her almond shaped eyes, her caramel...
2007-02-22
Herald Sun
Egg donors in demand
THE number of couples advertising for egg donors has skyrocketed. But fewer women are offering their services as egg donors. Advertisements for egg donors in parenting magazine Melbourne's Child jumped from eight in 2002 to 119 last year, with 26 ads already appearing this year.
2006-12-02
The Australian
The seminal search
THE letters were simple, typed on A4 paper. "Hello, my name is Sue. I am nine years old. I am in Year4 at primary school. I do dancing and netball. I have brown hair and hazel eyes. Could you please tell me what sport you played when you were a child? What kind of job do you do? Could you tell me your first..
2006-11-10
Herald Sun
Surrogacy laws to be reviewed
Senator Stephen Conroy and his wife will have to move from Victoria if they want to be considered the legal parents of their surrogate child. The Victorian federal frontbencher and his wife Paula Benson attended the birth of their daughter, Isabella, in Sydney on Monday.
2006-11-06
Herald Sun
Kids ignore chance to meet donor dads
DESPITE new laws and a statewide advertising campaign, no Victorian children conceived by donor sperm have tried to find their biological parents. More than 100 young Victorians, who have turned or will turn 18 between July and December this year, are eligible under the new consent laws to apply for...
2006-10-25
News Weekly
COMMENT - Should homosexual couples have access to IVF services?
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2006-10-25
News Weekly
DOCUMENTATION: IVF - Playing against a stacked deck
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2006-05-15
The Age
Honouring the need to know where we came from - Editorial - Opinion
Donor 401 has blue eyes, brown, wavy hair, is 193 centimetres tall and likes to play sports. He also studied for a PhD, loves his mother and - the reason for his notoriety - was an enthusiastic contributor to sperm banks.
2006-05-12
The Age
Ads urge parents to tell children of sperm bank origins
PARENTS of children conceived with donor sperm will be urged by health authorities to tell their children about their origins, in ads to start appearing in newspapers this weekend.
2006-05-11
The Age
Time to break the news to your children - Opinion - theage.com.au
The State Government has asserted what it believes is in a child's best interests. Should children be told they were conceived by sperm or egg donation? Leslie Cannold investigates.