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We have an extensive array of media articles and publications available, as listed below.

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Recent articles - August - December 2003
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Couples' Feelings Mixed About Extra Embryos - Tue 14 October, 2003 By John Schieszer
Coffee 'boosts male fertility' By Ania Lichtarowicz
Sperm Bank IDs Donor Dads
(CBS) - July 1, 2003 18:07:43 Times
Don't be secretive about our origins
by Ross Fitzgerald - February 13, 200302
Recent articles

Secret gift of life [read article]

By Teresa Ooi
The Australian - 26 April 2003
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IVF kids seeking donor parents - Tasmania, April 2003
Database could help NZ children trace sperm donors
Children are entitled to their full genetic history - Canada Times
Children of a lesser dad - December 2002
Bio-ethics Committee
Bio-ethics Committee – 1989 report on record keeping and access to information and birth certificates, includes donor insemination and donor egg
Bio-ethics Committee – 1988 report on access to information, an analogy between adoption and egg and sperm donation
Bio-ethics Committee – 1990 report on surrogacy
Bio-ethics Committee – 1990 report on surrogacy
Bio- ethics Committee – 1990 report on access to reporductive technology, includes criteria for acceptance onto a programme.
Bio-ethics Committee - 1991 report on reproductive technology counselling
Bio-ethics Committee – 1990 report on counselling in infertility
Attitudes of Sperm Donors:
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A statistical look at why donors donate and their opinions in regard to use of sperm access to information etc:

• Characteristics, Attitudes & Personalities of A.I. Donors,
• Psychological & Attitudinal Profiles in Donors For Artificial Insemination
• Relationships Between Semen Donors & Their Networks.
• Causes for Donor Rejection In A Sperm Banking Program.
• Patients Choice of A Sperm Donor.
• Causes for Donor Rejection In A Sperm Banking Program
• Patients Choice of A Sperm Donor.
• Identifiable Sperm Donors
• Donors Attitudes To Information Sharing & • Maintenance Of A Central Register.
• Attitudes to Recruiting Sperm Donors
• Sperm Donors. Attitudes Toward Providing Medical & Psychosocial Information For: Recipient Couples & Donor Offspring
• Optimising a D.I. program: The Donor Perspective
• Donor Non-identifying information
• D.I. Motivation & Attitude Questionaire for Donors

Attitudes Of Sperm Donors

Full statistical look at why donors donate and their opinions in regard to use of sperm, access to information etc
Withdrawal From a Donor Insemination Programme
Families by Donation

Donated eggs and sperm, does it make a difference to the family.

Children & Families From Donor Oocytes.

Report On the Family Study. How different ways of starting a family influences parents experiences of raising children. Looks at adoption D.I. IVF
Families By Donation
Psychosocial Distress & Infertility: Men & Women Respond Differently
Some Attitudes to Artificial Insemination By Donor
Other
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The Changing Pattern of Oocyte Donation.
Who donates eggs and how has this changed
The Motherhood Question.
The responsibilities of motherhood, the decision of when to start a family
Pursuing Parenthood. D.I. and the meaning of parenthood.
Assisted Reproductive Technology with Donor Gametes. The need for patient preparation.

The Importance of Counselling For Donor Sperm/Donor Oocyte Patients.

The Use of Donor Gametes In Conception: The Decision Making Process.
Biological Identity In Adoption

Artificial Insemination By Donor & The New Birth Technologies.

Who Am I? Children with problems of identification including adoption, IVF and A.I.D.

Psychosocial Assessment of Children Conceived by Donor Insemination.

To Search For Self. The experience of access to adoption information.
Psychological Aspects Of Donor Insemination
Lethal Secrets: How and when to tell. (book extract)
Treating Infertility: Alternative Medicines
Logistics Of Reserving Sperm for D.I. Siblins
Lethal Secrets: I finally figures it out. (book extract)
Proposal for the Establishment Of A National Infertility Consumers Association.
A Child Is Not the Cure For Infertility
A Call For Openness in Donor Insemination
Reproductive Technology In France
Cancer & Infertility: More research Needed
Infertility & Feminism
Medications & Environment & Pregnacy
How adoption affects the family: Adoption: A One Day Conference
Male Infertility:
Male Infertiltiy & Donor Sperm, Some possible considerations
Who Discovered Spermotaozoa.

Semen Analysis , Mail on Male
Therapeutic Donor Insemination:
Continuing problems of D.I. including donor selection
• Continuing Problems Of Donor Insemination
• Psychiatric Aspects Of Artificial Insemination
• Untoward Effects Of Artificial Insemination
• Psychological Aspects Of Human Artificial Insemination
• Psychological Aspects of A.I.D
Men’s Feelings About Infertility:
Be prepared: Save Donor Information
The Adoption Reunion Expereince:
Implications for assisted reproduction
Western Australia Reproductive Technology Council
Questions and answers about the donation of human reporductive material and donor insemination.
Assisted Conception in Australia & New Zealand
Perinatal Statistics 1991.
South Australia Statistics for clinics
U.N. Convention On the Rights of The Child 1989
U.N. Convention On the Rights of The Child 1989
Noncoital Reproduction & The Newer Reproductive Technologies
Understanding Infertility
The Human Tissue Act: Letter from Dr. G. Driscoll
Report On Donor Gametes in IVF (Victoria)
The Social Relevance Of Infertility
How to tell your child that he or she is not your biological child.
A guide for adoptive parents, step parents, parents of children born via the new birth technologies and other guardians
Do The Infertile Consitute A Family?
The betwixt and between state of infertile couples, a quest for family construction through the use of reproductive technology.
W.A Health Dept: Draft guidelines
by the W.A rep Technology council
W.A. Health Dept. Directions
by the W.A. rep. Technology council.
Report of the Working Party on IVF & AID
South Australia, 1984.
NSW Law Reform Commission
Discussion paper on the review of the adoption of children act.
AID & Adoption: Some comparisons
30 Something: The new decade for motherhood.
Pros and cons of older motherhood.
Male Infertility

Assessment, diagnosis, treatment. A very extensive list of different causes of male infertility.
Taken from the internet
Donor Insemination: Effects on parents.
Very brief look at the effects based on a NSW survey.
On having an adopted sibling: Some psychoanalytic observations.
Marketed Sperm: Use and regulation in the U.S.A
The Ordeal of Infertility: Article from Fortune Magazine
The Child as Client in Assisted Reproductive Technology:
What can we learn from adoption practice?
The Right to Information: Concerning biological origin as it affects adopted children and children conceived by AID. (1980)
Human Identity: Reproductive technology, records, information and honesty

Secrecy and Openness in D.I

• Protection from What?
• Openness, Fatherhood and Responsibility
• One Father Only
• Doctors and Donors
• D.I.s Dirty Little Secret
• Doubts and realities in D.I. Family Relationships
• D.I to IVF
• Sharing Information about D.I. in the U.K
• D.I. and the Child
• A Call for Openness in D.I.
• Moving Towards Openness in D.I

Assisted Conception
Australia and New Zealand perinatal statistics 1992-1993.
The Development and Demand For AID in Australia
Let the Offspring Speak

The need for a sense of self-identity and the impact of secrecy on families who adopt through d.i. with anonymous fathers, by Bill Cordray (d.i. offspring)
Positive Reflections: Growing up a D.I. Child
by Karen Topp. Of Canada.
Who has the Right to Have a Baby?
Magazine article, 1993
Sperm Bank Scandal. Cleo, 1991
Sperm Donors: Hospital information sheets for donors
Donor Insemination & Donor Egg.
Hospital information sheets for recipients.
Lone term effects on women from assisted conception.
National Health and Medical Research Council.
Klinefelter's Syndrome Information Package
Facilitating Contact Between Donor Conceived Individuals and their Donors.
by Jenny Blood
Identifiable Gamete Donors – The New Zealand Model
Talking to Children About their Conception – A parents Perspective.
Children Born Following Donor Assisted Conception and their rights to Genetic Origins Information.
Seven Years of Equity – NSW Adoption.

Equal Rights for Birth Parents & Adopted People – What have we learnt so far.
Talking With Children Conceived through DI , IVF & Egg Donor.
Psychological Factors Related to Donor Insemination.
A Study of Prospective Donor Insemination Recipients, Secrecy
Privacy and Disclosure.
The Forgotten Ethics and Values in Modern Procreation
How to Tell Your Child That He or She is Not Your Biological Child
Donors – Dispelling the Myths
Paper presented at the FSA conference in Adelaide 1997 by the Support Group.
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