Sunday Night, on the 7 Network - AU program on 'donor' conception

Submitted by Donor Conceived on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 8:55am

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This week on Sunday Night - 6:30pm on Seven
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Imagine fathering hundreds of children. The number is too impossible to fathom but it's a probable reality for a 31-year-old American who's been donating sperm three to five times a week for two years and making $40,000 in the process. This week Sunday Night investigates the contentious issue of donor conception. It’s a modern girl’s dilemma – a fabulous job, financial security but no Mr Right. When Sydney’s Nicole Moore hit her 40s, like many women her age, she knew time was running out to have a baby. With no man in sight, she went online and selected a donor father from the world’s largest sperm bank in the US. Reporter Rahni Sadler speaks to Dr Cappy Rothman, the "God of Sperm," who boasts his bank stores enough sperm to populate the world many times over. But what happens to donor kids who are desperate to piece their biological history together? There's also the ethical dilemma of donor kids meeting down the track and potentially falling in love, without knowing they are, in fact, siblings.

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A response by a mother of a 'donor' egg child

Submitted by Donor Conceived on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 7:51pm.

Although this was a nice program a few did think that it was rather topical. A woman who used 'donor' egg to conceive her child shared her thoughts (on another forum) about this program and agreed to let me share it:

Sue Hurst wrote:
"Personally I think what the problem is re: most of these programs only touching the surface is that the people making these are trying to speak up for the donor conceived whilst at the same time trying not to take away from the rights of the recipient parent and the donors. Its never going to work properly from this angle because the 3 are far too conflicting - although all 3 are very much a part of it. I would love to see a program wholly embracing the views of donor conceived separate to everyone else or a program which includes the like of bio grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and half siblings and their views (thats if we could find out who they are).

And you may also add that I feel that "one person" in a "family" should not have the "right" to donate away a whole family heritage without permission from the rest of their family. This is not fair to that family or to the person created by the "donation". Also we (as a recipient parent) have a duty of responsibility to ensure that the child created has access to their own personal biological history and to give our precious children the same rights that each and every other person on this planet enjoys. "