This explains a lot in Australia, now doesn't it?

(smart-mouth comments, as usual, in bold italic)

Clinic Asks Politicians to Donate Sperm
Thu Jan 13, 8:09 AM ET

Oddly Enough - Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Politicians in one Australian state have been asked to lend a hand (poor choice of words) and become sperm donors to help arrest dwindling supplies at an in-vitro fertilization clinic.

The Monash IVF clinic has written to 25 parliamentarians aged under 45 in Victoria state asking them to set an example for the rest of the male population by becoming sperm donors.
"We hope that if some of the leading role models within our community become donors, others may follow suit," the Monash letter said.
(So if someone's a good guy, he's got good sperm? I can just hear the nature vs. nurture arguments starting now...)

Monash IVF clinic medical director Gab Kovacs said the clinics' stocks had been dwindling since a state law came into force in 1998 requiring that only men who were prepared to have their identities released could become donors.
(What about cash incentives? Or providing nachos and beer? Or, in this case, vegemite and beer?)

A Monash spokeswoman said the clinic had about 100 clients on its books and only 13 donors. The clinic was yet to receive any answers from interested MPs, she said.
(So no RSVP's from MPs, huh? That's FUBAR! Or how about SNAFU? I've got more anagrams, ya know...I could go on all day!)

Victoria Police Minister Andre Haermeyer said he hadn't been asked to become a donor but wondered if politicians were suitable candidates.
(Ask any of the Kennedys...)

"It could create a rather quarrelsome family, I would have thought," Haermeyer told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
(No more than the average, I think...)

Sudiegirl's final thought?

I'm glad this is not an option in my life. All the choices...too many choices...why can't people get pregnant the good old fashioned way...in the back of a car?

Proudly NOT in the family way,

Sudiegirl