Move over sperm banks!

Soon it will be legal in Ontario for a man to impregnate a woman while absolving himself from being the father by simply signing a pre-sex waiver.

A good deal for some men to absolve themselves of any responsibilty? A bad deal for future children who may never know whose DNA helped create them?

As bizarre as is seems, an agreement where a man is nothing more than a sperm donor — with no financial or emotional commitments — could soon be legal in Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario.

Another twisted change eroding the traditional family? Or updating the realities of today’s families that will soon have rules recognizing up to four parents per child?

Either way, a law providing an escape clause for men from being considered a parent is news!

We already know that the government wants to replace the term “mother” with “birth parent.” However, But if the Liberal government gets its way there will be new wording that could also exempt and erase biological fathers.

Wynne’s majority Liberals call it Bill 28, the The All Families Are Equal Act.

It states “the biological father of a child conceived without the use of assisted reproduction is, and shall be recognized in law to be, a parent of the child” unless “this section is deemed not to apply to a person who provides his own sperm for use in conceiving a child without the use of assisted reproduction if, before the child is conceived, the person and the intended birth parent agree in writing that the person providing the sperm does not intend to be a parent of any child conceived as a result.”

It does not even say it needs to be in a notarized letter.

“Just write it on a post-it note before going to bed and you can sign away your responsibilty as a father,” mused Charles McVety, president of Canada Christian College. “It is sad that Bill 28 will allow a man to write an agreement before sex that absolves himself of paternal responsibility.”

A committee at Queen’s Park will continute its review of the bill on Tuesday with a view to having it voted on later this week.

Thanks to opponents like McVety, the committee was forced to step back to make amendments.

Turns out those were not putting back “mother” and “father” into the wording. According to a story in the Queen’s Park Briefing Notes, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi “confirmed this includes tweaking provisions that some are concerned could potentially force a woman who becomes pregnant after a one-night stand or sexual assault to seek consent from the putative father should she wish to put that child up for adoption.”

The Liberal government did not get back to me to help explain all this.

I am told there is a secondary consideration from the new wording on fathers beyond the logical concern that adoptive parents are not properly recognized as legal parents.

A friend of mine told me as a homosexual man, he has been “assisting some of my lesbian friends” in having children by “donating my sperm to them” without any middle player or corporation involved that “allows them to conceive a child” without having to go through a sperm bank or with dealing with registering a father.

In this scenario, prior to the Bill 28, this arrangement could technically force my friend to be a legal father. But the new rules allow both the male and the female to agree to sign away his responsibilty. It means he can help many female friends have children without repercussions.

Same goes for one-night stands as long as the have it writing before intercourse.

“What is happening here is disturbingly the government is re-engineering the family not only in practice but also in law,” said McVety.