1980 - First baby born in Australia using IVF
1988 - Read 2010 below.
2010 - Single women and lesbians given access to IVF (and subsidized by Medicare)
2010 - The laws in most states changed to give any child conceived using sperm donation access to their details, backdating the access to information as far back as 1988.
2011+ The number of sperm donors is dropping, even though both the population of Australia has increased (more available men) and the demand for donors has increased.
I don't have a big issue with lesbians accessing sperm donations as long as they are self sufficient. Nothing annoys me more than a government that purposely seeks to create a welfare class by giving single women access to a subsidized way of having children.
There are several kinds of women who get to the point in their life where they're running out of time to have children, but they can be summed up as:
- Women who have prioritized their own person life (career, fun, travel) ahead of having a family; and
- Women who are incapable of maintaining long term relationships.
The first group of women may be able to switch their focus to a child, but it could be doubtful, especially since a single woman will usually need to keep working to afford to raise a child.
The second group is the group that we should be most concerned about as it is a very bad idea to help a person incapable of maintaining a relationship on a long term basis the responsibility of raising another human being who can't walk away before he or she is 18 years old. Remember, statistically speaking, the number of prison inmates who grew up in single mother households is dis-proportionally high.
Of course it may actually be beneficial for the child of a single mother to know there's a father out there they'll be able to contact when they turn 18 years old, or maybe it won't. Only time will tell.
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