Dr. Joanna Rose:

-----of having individuals representing themselves rather than having experts over people.

The other issue is that I identified for a significant period of my life as gay. What is seen as reproductive rights or gay reproductive rights is, in this instance, a right to have a genetic child who is somebody else's. If there is a reproductive right, there is a duty to provide that and to provide gametes. I do not believe there is a duty to provide a child to anybody who is infertile. I do not believe that is a duty our society owes those people. We need to come back to base and think about it.

If people want to adopt a child, they are screened. A child is not made available just because they want one. Children are only removed from a genetic family as a last resort for child protection. The fact that a group of people are waiting and want to have a child does not create supply; demand does not create supply in the case of adoption. People may want to have a child through donor conception, regardless of whether they are gay. That is the issue at hand in considering the best interests of the child. It is the level of identity fragmentation that can be facilitated, funded and promoted on behalf of the groups of people who want to have a child. It is not a homophobic argument. The difficulty is that when we say these practices are inherently flawed, people think it is a homophobic argument. There are plenty of gay people who will say they do not support surrogacy.