The rise of personal genetic testing and growth of international DNA databases could put an end to anonymous sperm and egg donation as donor-conceived individuals may unintentionally discover biological relatives, according to UCL researchers.
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Why It’s Wrong to Ban Anonymity For Egg and Sperm Donors
The central pillar of the Children and Family Relationships Bill’s assisted reproduction regulations is an attempt to outlaw anonymous egg and sperm donation and force every donor-conceived child to be given the opportunity to identify and meet their donor once they have reached 18.
France: donor anonymity holds firm in court case
A French court has effectively reaffirmed the country’s policy of gamete donor anonymity by rejecting a donor-conceived woman’s demand for information on her biological father.
The woman requested that a message be passed on to the man asking whether he would accept to be identified. She was also seeking disclosure of non-identifying information – medical history, reasons for donation, number of children conceived from the sample – in the event of the man’s refusal of her request.
But even though the woman, who has requested anonymity, was not asking for direct identification, the tribunal in Montreuil, on the outskirts of Paris, still threw out her request on the grounds that information given to clinics by gamete donors is protected as secret under French law.
The woman, herself a lawyer, had invoked Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to private and family life and in some readings confers a right to access information essential to personal identity.
Shout out for opinons on large donor-conceived sibling groups
This is a shout-out for opinons from everyone interested in third party reproduction on large sibling donor-conceived groups.