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March 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Victorian government should act quickly to change the law to allow people conceived through sperm donation to know the father’s identity, an advocacy group says.
The Victorian parliament’s Law Reform Committee has recommended the government legislate to allow donor-conceived people to obtain identifying information about their biological parent.
State legislation currently prohibits people conceived from sperm donations before the Infertility (Medical Procedures) Act came into effect on July 1, 1988 from having access to any identifying information about their donors.
Advocacy group Tangled Webs urged the government to legislate the committee’s recommendations as soon as possible, “in recognition of the lengthy time that the pre-1988 donor-conceived Victorians have waited their turn for equality and justice”.
The group also urged past donors to register their details on a voluntary register, saying that in some cases where records have been lost or destroyed this would be the only way information could be shared.
It said the changes would bring the rights of donor-conceived people born before 1988 into line with adopted people, who received the right to apply for information about their biological parents in 1984.
Lauren Burns, 28, said cruel laws had denied people like her who were born before 1988 the right to information, even though it was recognised that people born after 1988 should have it.
“Before this inquiry we had no rights and faced a bureaucratic black hole if we wanted to know where we came from,” Ms Burns said in a Tangled Webs statement.
Several submissions to the inquiry noted that pre-1988 donors were assured anonymity at the time and believed that promise should be honoured, the committee’s report said.
Chair Clem Newton-Brown said the committee had sought to ensure that appropriate protections were provided for those donors who were concerned about what may happen when the identifying information was released.
The government has six months to respond to the report.
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