Ms Meredith Baldwin:

I totally agree with Ms Roberts. It would not make any difference. It would be perhaps another person but, as I said in my opening statement, we are at the stage where one can have a child that is going home to a same-sex or opposite-sex couple conceived from a donor sperm or a donor egg and a host mother. The possibilities are pretty endless. As Ms Roberts said, if one has the physical ability to use some of one's genetics, it would be natural to want to do that, but if one cannot, one cannot. It is black or white; one either can or one cannot. If one still wants to go down the road of having a family, then one explores other possibilities. I do not think it would make any difference if I found out tomorrow that I had an egg donation mum. Perhaps it would be different, but I do not think so. The important aspect is having openness and knowing about it. Things tend to fail when people are not open, try to hide things and it becomes a secret.