Recently on 60 Minutes on Channel Nine, a Mr "Joe Donor" was interviewed about sperm donation for women internationally who cannot have children.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEubszGfKoc

He was told he was "putting women's lives at risk". Surely though if people are involving themselves in an act like sperm donation, through freedom of choice, these people must take responsibility, including women.

Children are put last, through an individuals selfish desire to have children, not recognising an individuals role in society re their inability to have children. These people also do not consider the future issues placed on the lives of others they are involved with re creation.

Sperm donation laws vary per country and people can be paid to donate. Should sperm donor children have the right to know about their donor internationally?

plenty of kids waiting adoption around the world. We also murder millions of unborn. No need for donours at all. Another godless construct.

The children should have the right to know, they might be being done out of a considerable inheritance, both monetary and historical.

Then there is the matter of inheritable medical conditions which it is not only the individual's right, either legal or moral, to know but also any future partner

There should be no sperm donations in the first place. Runner is right: there are kids to be adopted. How any woman can accept - or even want - sperm from a stranger who likes to be paid to wank into a receptacle is is beyond all reason.

//plenty of kids waiting adoption around the world.//

Hear hear runner, I could not agree more. In Australia its still very difficult to adopt children. Is it still a fact they wont let people over 35 adopt?

In my extended Maori family, children being taken on by "Aunties" was/is very common practice. My wife's youngest sister was raised by her oldest sister. A poor family with 13 children. A niece in NZ is raising three kids of her cousins. If there is a family problem of neglect, drugs or alcohol etc, and kids are involved there is never a problem finding new parents. Call a family meeting, state your case, and the elders make the decision. Now days it often done officially through child welfare, and the government does recognise as a cultural thing this practice, and after the necessary checks the handover takes no time at all.

Gee, runner my wife going on 70 still says if there is ever any child in need, "we" would have no hesitation taking that child in. Giving family support is considered normal, and goes without question. I'm a bit more circumspect with people than "T", its the Pakeha attitude in me verses the Maori way in her at times, but we always sore it out.

two sided issue if the donor does not want to be known , and the receiver wants to know
No donation
Some normal CHRISTIAN people suffer and they want a child
The God I knew would not call them Godless
Some who use Gods name are however in my view Godless

As usual we have a bunch of people talking with great authority about a subject on which they are utterly ignorant. T'was always thus...

I'm a sperm donor. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”. We did things differently there.

It was at a time when clinical implanting and IVF was relatively new. It was also a time when the great AIDS scare had reduced the number of donors.

So, via the ABC, a cry went out from the clinics to healthy men with proven fertility to help desperate couples conceive.

I was such a man. I'd already had two kids and experienced the utter joy of parenthood. My, and my wife's, heart went out to those who couldn't experience the same joy.

I approached a clinic at one of the major maternity hospitals. The process involved six visits over six weeks while abstaining 4 days before each visit. Six donations - 6 potential kids. I know at least 2 of them were successful.

Yes, I was paid - $10 per visit to cover costs of attending. I, and I gather most other men, re-donated the money back to the clinic.

These children were conceived in love and compassion. Compassion from me and my wife toward unfortunate couples. Love from their legal father who agreed to raise and love children with another man's DNA. Love from a mother so desperate to have a child to love that she underwent these less than pleasant procedures.

But too many black hearts here and in the wider community see other motives. It says more about them than about those actually involved in creating a loved child.

I was assured that the child would never know my identity without my concurrence. I have since let the clinic know that I'm open to having my details given to any child that wants to met their natural father. None have done so as yet.

Loving, caring couples successfully conceiving and raising a child born of love is always right, never wrong. It takes a certain darkness of spirit to think otherwise.

mhaze proud of you!
At last a post that tells it like it is, one I support every word in
God, the one I once loved had he been real would cast some in to hell, for miss use of a thing of good

good intentions never made an action right. Many of the young getup clowns sincerely believe they are saving the planet. Some Nazis sincerely believed that the world was better off without Jews. Demonising people and calling them 'black hearts' is a bit racist isn't it?

" Some Nazis sincerely believed that the world was better off without Jews."

Because bringing a baby into the world to be raised by a loving couple is exactly the same as the Holocaust. Fair dinkum, what a dill.

" Demonising people and calling them 'black hearts' is a bit racist isn't it?"

Yes, in exactly the same way as going on a cruise on the Black Sea is racist.

'Yes, in exactly the same way as going on a cruise on the Black Sea is racist.'
ha ha

I have seen young couples wish for a child after years come true and to think some see evil in that?
Fake Christians are evil folk God was about love not hate

yes Belly you have demonstrated how much you 'love' the butchered unborn. I suggest you stick to your beloved labour/unions as your fake 'love' leads to very bad theology.