Gamete donor anonymity and limits on numbers of offspring: the views of three stakeholders

Margaret K Nelson¹, Rosanna Hertz², Wendy Kramer³

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¹ Department of Sociology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA.
² Departments of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA.
³ Donor Sibling Registry, Nederland, CO 80466, USA.

PMID: 27774232
PMCID: PMC5033425
DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsv045

Gamete donor anonymity and limits on numbers of offspring: the views of three stakeholders

Margaret K Nelson et al. J Law Biosci. 2015.

. 2015 Oct 29;3(1):39-67.

doi: 10.1093/jlb/lsv045. eCollection 2016 Apr.

Authors

Margaret K Nelson¹, Rosanna Hertz², Wendy Kramer³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sociology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA.
² Departments of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA.
³ Donor Sibling Registry, Nederland, CO 80466, USA.

PMID: 27774232
PMCID: PMC5033425
DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsv045

Abstract

This paper discusses the attitudes of three groups of stakeholders in the world of assisted reproduction gamete donors, parents who use donated gamete, and offspring conceived with donated gametes with respect to the two issues of donor anonymity and limits on the number of offspring a single donor can produce. The data are drawn from on-line surveys which were made available between May 12, 2104 and August 15, 2014 to gamete donors, donor-conceived offspring, and parents who used donated gametes to conceive. A total of 325 donors (176 egg donors; 149 sperm donors) responded to the survey as did 2134 parents and 419 offspring. The data show that offspring are more opposed to donor anonymity than are parents and donors. Among offspring opposition to anonymity grows as they age. On the other hand, parents are most in favor of limits on numbers of offspring produced by a single donor. Parents worry about health and accidental contact between people conceived from the same donor.

Keywords: anonymity; assisted reproduction technology; gamete donors; limits.

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