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Donor bill would help prevent exploitation

Submitted by Donor Conceived on Wed, 03/17/2010 - 3:00pm
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http://newsok.com/article/3446977

Donor bill would help prevent exploitation
POINT OF VIEW Egg donation measure
BY JENNIFER LAHL, DAVID PRENTICE AND MIKE JESTES | Oklahoman
Published: March 17, 2010

IVF doctors to raffle human egg - Times Online 3/14/10

Submitted by Donor Conceived on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 8:50am
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(My note: How low can we go?)

IVF doctors to raffle human egg
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article7061155.ece
(March 14/10. The Times)

"A fertility clinic is raffling a human egg in London to promote its new ³baby profiling² service, which circumvents British IVFlaws. The winner will be able to pick the egg donor by racial background, upbringing and education. Payment for profit is illegal in Britain, but the £13,000 [US $20,000] of free IVF treatment will be provided in America."

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Baby By Stealth: Reproduction law forcing ‘dangerous alternatives’ - National Post 3/12/10

Submitted by Donor Conceived on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:54pm
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(My note: I'm not sure what is being advocated for in this article. Are they suggesting that repro-tech in Canada should be as unregulated as it is in the United States for fear of "underground/blackmarket" baby making (regulating repro-tech does not raise the same concerns as back alley wire hanger abortions). I can't believe the fear of a few desperate individuals (no one has an absolute right to a child under any circumstances) justifies a wild west unregulated repro-industry approach. I'm not in agreement on this one.)

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2677573

"MP in donor details push" Canning Times: In my community - AU

Submitted by Donor Conceived on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 5:46pm
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http://canning.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/MP-in-dono...

MP in donor details push
09/Mar/2010

"BEING asked to be a patron of a community group is part of a politician’s job, but for Swan MHR Steve Irons one request was close to his heart.

Mr Irons remembers all too well the disconnection from family he felt for many years being a ward of the state and fostered when three-and-a-half.

The Anonymous Sperm Donor No Longer - New Hampshire Public Radio 3/9/10

Submitted by Donor Conceived on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 11:35am
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As a person whose parents used an "anonymous sperm donor" to conceive me, I very much appreciated the respectful, sensitive way Wendy and Rachel interchanged the words "sperm donor" with "biological father".

New Hampshire Public Radio
Word of Mouth
Listen to (THIS EXCELLENT) radio broadcast here: http://www.nhpr.org/node/31464

The Anonymous Sperm Donor No Longer
By Abby Goldstein on Tuesday, March 9, 2010.

Who Wears the Black Hat in Haiti?

Submitted by caf on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 2:56pm
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I wasn’t going to blog about Haitian orphans again. Really, I wasn’t. I figured I had worn my audience thin on the subject; it was time to move on. My resolve wavered, but held firm even when last Friday’s mail brought Time Magazine and the Wall Street Journal both running stories on the “Haitian orphan crisis”. But after reading both articles I couldn’t get them out of my mind, try as I might. Oh, what the heck, as long as I’m obsessing on this subject, why should I suffer alone.

Confessions of a Cryo-Kid: "The reality of reunion...and what the media doesn't tell you"

Submitted by Donor Conceived on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 11:45pm
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http://cryokidconfessions.blogspot.com/2010/03/reality-of-reunionand-wha...

Saturday, March 6, 2010
The reality of reunion...and what the media doesn't tell you

"Last week an article ran in Slate Magazine entitled "Are Sperm Donors Really Anonymous Anymore?" (never mind the gross number of factual errors throughout the entire article).

Donor Conception Support Group (DCSG) Inquiry into Donor Conception Practices

Submitted by Donor Conceived on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 11:01pm
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http://www.clan.org.au/dcsg/legislation/inquiry.html

National Consumer Advocacy

National Inquiry into Donor Conception Practices

This is the letter that we sent to all members of the Federal Parliament in August of 2009

The DCSG represents donor conception families throughout Australia . In June of this year members of our group met with Northern Territory Senator Trish Crossin and we discussed the following matters.

Summary

The Issues

The People's Court - Shopping for sperm donor on craigslist

Submitted by Donor Conceived on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 8:12am
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The People's Court - Shopping for sperm donor on craigslist! pt. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wyz99pjM4c

The People's Court - Shopping for sperm donor on craigslist! pt. 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qro3xNB1xmY&feature=

This is not a spoof. For those not familiar with People's Court you can learn more about it here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Court)

I thought I'd elaborate more about what I liked and didn't like about this case and the practice in general.

What I liked:

- Nice women - want children - that they would most likely love very much

Slate 3/1/10 "Are Sperm Donors Really Anonymous Anymore?"

Submitted by Donor Conceived on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 3:31pm
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http://www.slate. com/id/2243743/ pagenum/all/ #add-comment

Are Sperm Donors Really Anonymous Anymore?
DNA testing makes them easy to trace.
By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
Updated Monday, March 1, 2010, at 9:36 AM ET

When Donor 3066 signed up with the California Cryobank, he offered some basic information about himself on a piece of paper: that he had a BA in theater; that his mother was a nurse and his father was in the Baseball Hall of Fame; that his birthday was Sept. 18, 1968. He made it clear that he didn't want to be found by signing a waiver of anonymity.

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