Mary Henry (Independent)

——the daughter of a woman in her 40s had to have a hysterectomy and it was proposed that her mother would have a baby using her daughter's ova and sperm from the partner of the daughter. The mother was still married to the girl's father. If the child was born, the gestational mother, the genetic mother's sister, would be the parent and the grandfather of the child would be the father. Talk about guardianship: the biological father, the genetic father of the child, would have no rights to it at all. These are the sort of issues we have to address. They are complex, as Senator Minihan said. I do not know how they will be sorted out, but they need to be examined.