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Be a role model and donate sperm: Australian clinic
An Australian fertility clinic is seeking to make up its shortfall of sperm donors by appealing to legislators' sense of public spirit.
The Melbourne clinic, Monash IVF, has written to Victoria state MPs pointing out that a change in the law in 1998 had led to dwindling sperm stocks, and asking them to make up the difference.
Under the revised law, any child resulting from the sperm is entitled to know their biological father's identity when aged 18, and only men who consent to this can donate.
Since then the number of donors on its books has shrunk to a mere 13, with only five men signing up last year compared to up to 20 a year before the legal change.
"Have you ever thought of becoming a sperm donor?" the clinic's medical director Gab Kovacs asked in the letter seen Thursday.
"We hope that if some of the leading role models within our community become donors, others may follow suit," he said, stipulating though that donor MPs must be no older than 45.
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