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Sperm bank donors rely on anonymity when they donate their sperm. With new DNA technology, it is possible to trace ancestry including sperm donors. How will the courts respond when a child has a genetic health risk or disease and needs to know about his or her genetic medical history? Will the courts respond as they did with adoption? Discuss
For generations, it was a basic tenet of donating sperm, clinics could forever protect their clien'ts identities. but, increasingly , donor anonymity is dead. the rise of consumer genetic tests- which allow people to connect with relatives they never knew they had, including some who never intended to be found in the first place-is forcing sperm donation clinics to confront the fact thst it is now virtually impossible to quarantee anonymity to their clients.
Some clinics and outside experts say , has forced a reckoining for a industry. many clinics say they have revised their policies-not to eliminate anonymous donations, but to make clear that the term only means they will not share donor information. others are gravitating toward op ID, donor systems, in which donors are told that offspring could connect with them they turn 18- or sooner- if both parties agree to it.
anonymous sperm donation occurs under the condition that recipients and offspring will never learn the identity of the donor. a non- anonymous donor, however will disclose his identity recipients... non-anonymous sperm donors are to asubstantially higher degree, driven by altruistic motives for their donations.
On 1 april 2005, with the implementation of the human fertilisation and embryology authority (disclosure of donor information) regulations 2004.United kingdom law was changed to allow children born through gamete donations to access details identifying the donor drawing on trends in adoption law,the decision to abolish donor anonymity was strongly influenced by a discourse that asserted the 'childs's right to personal identity '.Through examination of the donor anonymity debate in the public realm,while adopting a social constructionist approach this article discusses how donor ananymity has been defined as a social problem that requires a regulative response.It focuses on the child's right to personal identity'claims and discusses the genetic essentialism behind these claims by basing its assumptions on an adoption analogy,United kingdom law ascribes a social meaning to the genetic relatedness between gamete donors and the offspring.