I missed it.

NSW just enacted new ART legislation in January 2010. The NSW legislation reduces the number of families that can use a donor from 10 down to 5. It also removes the choice of the donor to be anonymous by creating a NSW donor registry which contains the identifying information of all donors from January 2010 onwards, which can be accessed by offspring once they turn 18. Thus if Dave Hughes did donate then any offspring born from his donations will be secretly provided Dave Hughes' complete identifying information (full name, date of birth, place of birth, private home address, ethnicity and physical characteristics, any medical or genetic history of relevance, the sex and year of birth of each of the donors "own" children) thus he is correct that any DC offspring will be given the information to stalk him and his family, including their private residential address, and Dave would not even be notified that his private information has been provided to a number of adult strangers.

I do believe there should be limits placed on the number of families a donor may help. I had a limit of 10 families when I was donating and now, with the aid of hind-sight, I think this was too many ... I know how many offspring have been born from these families and the number is a little uncomfortable to think about. I know I helped all these families but really the clinic (and to some degree the recipient families) do not really think about how the donor feels once he has given them what they want, and the reality of the number of offspring can get a little scary once it is out of the control of the donor.

These guys who donated hundreds of times in the 1990's should not have been allowed to do this. The same thing is happening today with imported sperm from some sperm banks. They do not place limits on their donors as they want to make money and it is possible that overseas donors can potentially have hundreds of offspring around the world. A good reason to NOT use imported sperm in my mind.

The solution to get more men to donate is to give them some more control over their donations and give them equal rights regarding information sharing (two way information sharing) with offspring.

Getting our military men to donate is an excellent idea.