Dr. Joanna Rose:

There is an inherent flaw that the Senator is right in picking up on. In one instance, we are asking for State funding to try, as much as possible, to help people become a genetic parent, and it is considered a huge blow if intending parents have to use a donor. To return to Head 22(7), if a future child might become infertile, there is an effort to help those children become genetic parents with State funding. In the case of another group of people, there is a complete disregard for their genetic kinship, which is severed as a means to an end. That is discrimination. One group of people's genetic continuity is valued and advanced with State funding at the expense of the other. There is no way that is not the case. If genetic continuity does not matter for one group, perhaps it does not matter for the other. If it matters for one group, it should matter for the other. As a result, people say it is happening anyway, that we have to become modern and liberal, and that we must put laws in place to limit the kind of damage that can take place. The laws and ethics, therefore, are made on the hoof.