Sonia Allan

OAM CF | Professor | LLM, MPH, PhD | #healthlaw, #bioethics, #humanrights, #childrenshealth, #publichealth, #health #healthtech #emergingtechnology

[Sonia Allan @SoniaAllan]

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[Sonia Allan @SoniaAllan]

To glimpse what comes ahead with AI—and settle fears of it transforming your job—look at its little-known history https://t.co/BqAvFNU8Jy via @WSJ

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Donor-conceived Coloradans would be able to learn their biological parent’s identity under new bill https://t.co/A91L3oSZKt

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Australia spent a million dollars training me – and now I’m leaving https://t.co/r7bsCd0T4U

[Damian H Adams @damian_h_adams]

Genetics and genetic ties are allowed to matter for this couple but for donor-conceived people they are not allowed to matter. But they do matter. Unless DCP rights are fully recognised it will always be hypocritical. #DonorConceived
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@ACHRH_MELBOURNE Isn't that the beautiful sculpture 'Taken Not Given' a memorial to separation by adoption. https://t.co/fPNGh65RUT

[Sonia Allan @SoniaAllan]

@DonsGametes @damian_h_adams cont...It enables comparison of facial traits to determine genetic traits inherited from an alleged family member (nb. some research suggests better success regarding same-gender matching - father–son; mother–daughter) than different-gender matching (father–daughter; mother–son))

[Sonia Allan @SoniaAllan]

@DonsGametes @damian_h_adams The article discusses the potential to conduct or supplement donor tracing via ‘facial kinship verification’) - noting it is already being marketed as being ‘the fastest way to assist in answering DNA paternity questions.

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Raising significant legal and ethical issues - especially for the children that may be born using this technology, a step into the unknown, "'Maeve's Law' passes Senate hurdle to legalising mitochondrial donation through IVF" https://t.co/xq429IkAoG via @ABCaustralia

[Sonia Allan @SoniaAllan]

Fantastic to work with Rafał Łukasiewicz on the article: ‘Donor-matching’ in Third-party Reproduction: a Comparative Analysis of Law and Practice in Europe. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Volume 36, Issue 1, 2022. https://t.co/IrJ9xBMrh4

[Sonia Allan @SoniaAllan]

‘Why did I need to know who my father was?’: one woman’s battle for her biological truth https://t.co/LJjaXSbMtt

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Ukraine’s surrogacy agencies overlooked the worst-case scenario — war https://t.co/wtG8po3YzJ

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Paralympian and disability advocate Dylan Alcott named 2022 Australian of the Year https://t.co/SKhBz20Rks

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Vale Professor Gillian North who died from asbestos-related cancer contracted following home renovation; (Deakin, previously Monash, UWA & UNSW). Gill made a significant contribution to corporate law scholarship, and will be missed by many. https://t.co/1eh7lYSuqO

[Washington Examiner @dcexaminer]

Same-sex couples, single men, and transgender individuals are permitted to have children via surrogacy in Israel.

The ban "disproportionately harmed the right to equality and the right to parenthood."

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[Damian H Adams @damian_h_adams]

Fertility fraud case settled for $13.375 million. #DonorConception #donorsperm #fertilityfraud https://t.co/iUWDfdV9jk

[Stephen Duckett @stephenjduckett]

When people talk dismissively that someone who died from COVID 'had underlying medical conditions', besides being ethically reprehensible, remember this includes about 40% of the population

[Sonia Allan @SoniaAllan]

Reproductive technology and surrogacy reforms step closer. McGowan Government’s response to Allan Review Recommendations for changes to surrogacy and human reproductive technology legislation https://t.co/YHnjunblcO