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Couples seeking fertility treatment do so because they want to have a child with the person they love. They are in responsible loving relationships. The last thing I would want is for my husbands 'child' from sperm donation turning up on my doorstep in the future. However, the laws for sperm donation that allow disclosure of the fathers name are completely necessary. Every child deserves to know its biological identity. While there is no reason that lesbians and single mothers cannot be caring and loving parents , sperm is something that you can 'pick' up in a supermarket - it is part of your childs identity. Its about time people realised that just because you want a child it does not necessarily mean you can have one,bilogically at least. Emotionally blackmailing desperate fathers is a low move.

Sounds a fair trade - gift of life from one partner in exchange for a gift of life from another. Does LauraG think there are deserving and undeserving types for fertility treatment as she seems to indicate only straight couples that don't have fertility problems should have children? There are plenty of couples that would welcome sperm donation from any man, gay or straight, and would be grateful for it.

jowo -as an adopted child I know what it feels like to grow up not knowing about your biological family. I have traced my mother - but my father remains unidentified. I have a fabulous adopted family -but always wonder about my biological heritage. I know many others through a support group that feel the same. i think that sperm and egg donation is creating a generation of children that will never know their heritage. As a new technology - we do not know the future questions that children conceived with donated sperm or eggs may wish to ask. It seems like the parents desire to have children is far more important than this. WE WANT A CHILD AND WE DONT CARE WHERE IT COMES FROM......Every day I look in the mirror and wonder which parent I inherited my features. People think that because you give birth to the child that it wont ever wonder where it came from - I cant help but think this is wrong. I am glad that children will now have the right to trace ,if only the name, of their donated genes. If you are brought up by two woman Its fairly obvious that the other half of you came from somewhere. I dont think gay woman/men/single woman should not have babies - I just think that using anonomous donors is wrong. Moreover that the idea that the simple solution of ' spreading the sperm' does not address the needs of the children that it conceives. I think it is selfish to go and to create a child from ingredients picked up from a clinic (GAY STRAIGHT WHATEVER). What are the consequences of donating sperm now? Now that you can rightly trace the donor - can you want to be part of your fathers lif? No wonder donor rates are down. People are finally realsing that donation is not JUST proving a sample, its creating a new life. Its not like blood donation - your not saving lives - you are gicng life to a child that is partly yours. In the past if you couldnt have a child you just got on with your life. Or adopted a child that needed a home. I think a lot will come out in the future from children conceived in this way and it wont be pretty. Just because you want a child it is not a human right.

I agree with Laura G. If a man conceived a child through a one night stand and didnt then take any responsibility for the kid we'd all say he was running away from his responsibilities. The same goes for all this egg and sperm donation. Its all your bodily fluids so you have to be reponsible for it. I dont feels sorry for the folk that need 'sperm or egg donations' Funny now that men may get found out the arnt donating!! In the old days not having kids was just gods way - now its something to be fixed. Everyone goes on and on about single mothers and how girls shouldnt get pregenant - now we are supposed to feels sorry for woman that cant be lone parents - I dont think so. Get on with your life - you can contribute more to society than another mouth to feed. if these folk taht want eggs and sperm arent willing to share what they got they shouldnt be taking other peoples.

Comparing the outcome of a feckless knee trembler with the regulated process of fertility treatment which is a considered and planned affair (and often painful and expensive) is disingenuous and unkind. LauraG may have anxieties about her origin but clearly there are procedures in place that make the donor aware that he can be traced so a child conceived this way will not undergo her experience.

Comparing the outcome of a feckless knee trembler with the regulated process of fertility treatment which is a considered and planned affair (and often painful and expensive) is disingenuous and unkind. LauraG may have anxieties about her origin but clearly there are procedures in place that make the donor aware that he can be traced so a child conceived this way will not undergo her experience.