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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

(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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(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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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