"It was labour intensive and emotionally draining, as searching for biological family always is when there have been no records kept, or when records have been destroyed. No one chooses to be born through donor conception. Making changesThe first cohort of donor-conceived people affected by the Hart Act can technically start applying for their donor's information in about a year's time. For too long, donor conception has not looked after the rights of the resulting baby, says Hamilton. The UN delegation drafted principles for donor conception and surrogacy to provide minimum standards for laws and practice in Nation States where surrogacy and/or donor conception are already permitted or tolerated.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 31, 2021 17:06 UTC