The ethics of anonymous gamete donation: is there a right to know one's genetic origins?

Hastings Cent Rep. 2014 Mar-Apr;44(2):28-35. doi: 10.1002/hast.285. Epub 2014 Feb 14.

Abstract

A growing number of jurisdictions hold that gamete donors must be identifiable to the children born with their eggs or sperm, on grounds that being able to know about one's genetic origins is a fundamental moral right. But the argument for that belief has not yet been adequately made.

MeSH terms

  • Access to Information*
  • Adoption
  • Awareness
  • Confidentiality
  • Family Relations
  • Female
  • Genetic Privacy*
  • Heredity*
  • Human Rights*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Oocyte Donation / ethics
  • Parent-Child Relations*
  • Personal Autonomy*
  • Social Identification*
  • Spermatozoa*
  • Tissue Donors*
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement / ethics*
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement / organization & administration
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement / standards
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement / trends