Reproductive donors legislation sparks ethics debate  Updated
November 29, 2007 09:03:00  The New South Wales Government's
decision to allow sperm and egg donors to make choices on the
recipients of their donations has sparked widespread moral and
political debate.  The Bill put forward to Parliament would
allow donors exclude recipients based on a number of criteria.
The proposal has led to suggestions that a donor could
discriminate against people based upon gender, religious beliefs
or sexual orientation, by specifying that such people would not
receive their genetic material.  Modern reproductive techniques
have enabled thousands of people to become parents where nature
had previously denied them the opportunity.  This has meant many
people have been born without knowing anything about one side of
their genetic heritage.  Angharad Candlin runs the Post Adoption
Resource Centre in Sydney.  She says, just like with adopted
children, people born from a donated egg or sperm are also
curious about their paren