Reproductive donor laws in NSW (1 Viewer)

[katie_tully]

Its probably got something to do with encouraging more donors. Donating sperm is kind of a big deal, sort of like when mothers give up their children for adoption. Theres fears involved, uncertaintys and ofcourse you are allways going to wonder whatever happened to your little spawn.

When questions like these are raised, donors feel better knowing that the child will be raised in a way similiar to how they would raise the kid if they werent donating. E.g a white intelectual atheist may feel unsettled if their child is going to be raised as a fundamentalist christian by bogan dumb ass parents. These fears can be absolved if there is some sort of basic control in who and who cannot receive the donation.

Again like a mother who gives up their child for adoption, they often like to check out the family to make sure the kid would have a good life and that the parents are people they approve of.


Although the issue is if its descrimination or not, i dont really see it like that. Maybe they could get rid of the religious, racial stuff and just give the sperm donor an option to meet the potential receivers. That way if the donor doesnt meet them he has nothing to complain about.[of course they wont do this, because a big part of sperm donation is no contact]

I have issues with all of those statements because the child is not the donors child. They have absolved themselves from any legal and financial responsibility of raising the child, they werent present for the pregnancy, they're not present during the childs life, they're not paying for anything, they're not there for anything. The kid isn't theirs.

You cannot absolve yourself from responsibilities relating to the child yet still call it your child.

 

[banco55]

Its probably got something to do with encouraging more donors. Donating sperm is kind of a big deal, sort of like when mothers give up their children for adoption. Theres fears involved, uncertaintys and ofcourse you are allways going to wonder whatever happened to your little spawn.

When questions like these are raised, donors feel better knowing that the child will be raised in a way similiar to how they would raise the kid if they werent donating. E.g a white intelectual atheist may feel unsettled if their child is going to be raised as a fundamentalist christian by bogan dumb ass parents. These fears can be absolved if there is some sort of basic control in who and who cannot receive the donation.

Again like a mother who gives up their child for adoption, they often like to check out the family to make sure the kid would have a good life and that the parents are people they approve of.


Although the issue is if its descrimination or not, i dont really see it like that. Maybe they could get rid of the religious, racial stuff and just give the sperm donor an option to meet the potential receivers. That way if the donor doesnt meet them he has nothing to complain about.[of course they wont do this, because a big part of sperm donation is no contact]

I assume the rationale is that if the child can easily locate the donor and the kid has a bad experience because his parents are two butch lesbians and the guy isn't comfortable with that it would be bad for the kid. I think the laws in the end won't have much effect either way. The kind of people who donate sperm usually aren't the kind of people who go to hillsong.