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Welcome to the Donor Conception Support Group The Donor Conception Support Group of Australia Inc. is a self funding organisation run by volunteers and has been in existance since 1993. Our membership is made up of people considering or using donor sperm, egg or embryo, those who already have children conceived on donor programmes, adult donor conceived people and donors. We also have social workers , doctors and clinic staff as members of the support group. We feel that Donor Gamete families need an ongoing support system. Conceiving a child using donated gametes is only the first step. Parents, donor conceived people, donors and their family need help with accessing information and dealing with issues throughout their lives.	Our website is still under construction by our wonderful volunteers so please be patient as we add new information and links


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14th November

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Donor conceived people

Donors of sperm, eggs & embryos

Information on:

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On our members only pages we have:

Our quarterly newsletter

Father figures

Donor-conception: 'I'd got to the bottom of a secret'

Sperm Donor's 24 kids never told about fatal illness

An Egg Donor Responds

Inquiry into inclusion of donor details on the register of births

The issue of whether there should be provision to include donor details on the register of births maintained by the NSW Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages is to be examined in an inquiry conducted by the Legislative Assembly's Committee on Law and Safety.

The Committee's inquiry follows a recent District Court judgment to remove a sperm donor's details from the register of births.

Currently there is no provision for recording of sperm, egg or embryo donor details by the NSW Registrar. However, donor information is entered on a central register that has been kept by the Department of Health since January 2010. The register was set up to assist the exchange of information on donor conceived people, with donors and offspring having the opportunity to access information about each other.
The Chair of the Committee, Mr John Barilaro MP, said that "Access to information for donor conceived people is an important issue, and the Committee is keen to seek community views on where and how details should be maintained to facilitate this access."

"We will consider whether the current system for recording donor information is adequate, and whether these details should be kept by the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages."

"As part of the inquiry, we will also be exploring how donor details are recorded in other Australian jurisdictions."

The Committee is inviting submissions to the inquiry. Submissions can be emailed to lawsafety@parliament.nsw.gov.au, lodged via the Committee’s website at
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lawandsafety or mailed to: The Chair, Committee on Law and Safety, Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000.

The closing date for submissions is Wednesday, 21 December 2011.

For more information & help with making a submission CLICK HERE

It is a thoughtful drawing together of the experiences of those who have used assisted conception services and undergone treatment with donated gametes. It provides a practical approach to the process of choosing donor conception, but also explores the emotional and ethical issues involved. I started off by suggesting this book as a valuable resource for clients undergoing donor conception – I finish by suggesting the book should have a place on each treatment centre’s bookshelf with encouragement for every staff member to read it. Liz Scott, counsellor in the Assisted Conception Unit, Lister Hospital, London.
The book is impressive, both in the moving stories from all lay participants in the donor conception scene – recipient parents, donors and donor offspring; and in the comprehensiveness of its coverage. There is seemingly no scenario omitted. Sperm, egg and embryo donation all feature.Grant Pepper - Pathways newsletter of Fertility New Zealand

To purchase this book click here