I came upon this article by Margaret Sommerville - a woman who is fast becoming one of the Great Canadian Women in my pantheon...

In that group, i would also include Gwen Landoldt and Senator Anne Cools, by the way!

In this article, which starts off talking about the rights of children conceived through donor insemination, she manages to concisely (in two pages) sum up our responsibilities, in the moral sphere, toward children currently being conceived through the many kaleidoscopic ways, in a Canada that is often at the forefront of, let's face it, lunacy.

It seems that reason has always taken a back seat to the fervor of imagination.   And instead of asking "Should we do this" - the scientific ethos and the zeitgeist is almost always with those who ask "Can we do this?"...

Hats off to Margaret Sommerville for being unafraid to be plain spoken, calm, clear, and fair in terms of our moral responsibilities...

http://www.familyaction.org/PDFs/Right-of-children-to-know-who-their-parents.pdf

Please read this!