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

Overview

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.

publication date

  • February 14, 2014

Research

keywords

  • Access to Information
  • Genetic Privacy
  • Heredity
  • Human Rights
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Social Identification
  • Spermatozoa
  • Tissue Donors
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84897671895

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1002/hast.285

PubMed ID

  • 24532424

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 44

issue

  • 2