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A groundbreaking legislated crackdown on Queensland fertility providers has sparked calls to establish a national register for children conceived with the aid of a donor.
Queensland parliament passed legislation on Tuesday governing the sector in the state, for the first time.
The fertility sector has come under criticism in recent years, particularly for a historic practice of keeping donors anonymous. That means many donor-conceived people do not have access to their medical history records.
The law ends that practice by requiring all people conceived at a clinic be included on a register including retrospectively.
Fertility lawyer and director of the Fertility Society of Australia and New Zealand, Stephen Page, said it was time for the federal government to step in.
Page, who spoke in a private capacity, also used a donor to conceive his own child.
“The Fertility Society of Australia and New Zealand has called for a national donor registry,” he said.
“Now we’re going to have, when this bill gets enacted, eight systems of regulation of IVF in a country of 27 million, which is crazy, yeah.
“We’ve...