Apparently, as one Senior Lecturer at Deakin University states, sperm donation is not just like giving blood.

In the rest of the article is the usual fluff one would expect from a Left-Wing organization, but there are some real corkers in the article.

1. She's was travelling around Europe and the USA to "focus upon public health issues for woman and children" - read as being "focus on health issues for anyone by men".  Great to be travelling the world 'studying' issues when it's clear that the conclusion was most probably written before the 'study' had begun.
2. She claims that both the donors and the recipients 'want' to give out their information but apparently can't - read as the government should force all donors to give up their information because most of them want to give it up anyway.  How many donors (men) were actually asked? 80%? 20%? A couple of guys she knows?
3. "It struck me, that in all the studies and talk of donor conception, it was the individuals that are brought into being as a result that were the least considered of all" - might have been true back in 2011, but it is now the donor who is least considered now.  How many safety systems are in place for donors?  So, if a 20 year old who is a danger to society was conceived by sperm donation, they're allowed to just 'look you up'?
4. "As people have entered their 20s and 30s and had their own families, this call seemed to be getting louder" - so, not necessarily a higher percentage of people seeking their donor's details, just the vocal majority are getting louder about it.

Gotta love how the hamster spin this "Dr" has to justify taking away the anonymity of all of a group of men because she'd found a couple that didn't care.  How many donors are consulted before misleading 'studies' like this are allowed to see the light of day?

Here's the reality of the world: for all of the donors who WANT to be found, they can go on registries that will try to match them up with donor children, assuming the children are even looking.  Hell, they could even broadcast online the approximate dates and place they donated and take a DNA test with anyone who comes forward.

It just seems so short-sighted to rationalize major changes in the system because a few loud people are complaining when the system will stop working when the number of donors continues to drop.  We're already importing sperm from the USA due to chronic shortages here, but the shortage isn't due to male infertility, rather an unwillingness by local men to sign up for an already inconsistent and shady deal.

Any man who donates gets a nominal amount of money whilst supposedly helping a loving woman or couple have a child, but the reality is that they're donating to a for-profit business that is making money not only from the sperm donated, but also off the own personal information of the donor as the recipients are apparently allowed to access more of your personal information if they pay the company more money.  Do any of the men whose information is being brokered and sold on in the deal see a cent of that money?  No, but that's because they've been 'paid' for their services, so any additional money that can be extracted from a recipient is just more profit for the company.

If the system is going to survive long term, there's going to have to be a shake-up of the overall situation because as it stands there's far more expectation on the side of the donors than anyone else and the number of donors relative to population should be a clear enough sign to the industry that the situation is clearly too single sided.