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

Hastings Center Report 44 (2):28-35 (2014)
  Copy   BIBTEX

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.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,616

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Gamete donation.Kerri Anne Brussen - 2011 - Chisholm Health Ethics Bulletin 16 (4):7.
Rethinking the moral permissibility of gamete donation.Melissa Moschella - 2014 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 35 (6):421-440.
Anonymity in Gamete Donation.Michael Herbert - 2004 - Chisholm Health Ethics Bulletin 10 (1):1.
'Til Death Us Do Part: the ethics of postmortem gamete donation.M. J. Parker - 2004 - Journal of Medical Ethics 30 (4):387-388.
Compensation for Gamete Donation: The Analogy with Jury Duty.Lynette Reid, Natalie Ram & R. Brown - 2007 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16 (1):35-43.

Analytics

Added to PP
2014-07-10

Downloads
11 (#976,244)

6 months
5 (#247,092)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Inmaculada de Melo-Martin
Weill Cornell Medicine--Cornell University

References found in this work

The Morality of Freedom.Joseph Raz - 1986 - Philosophy 63 (243):119-122.
Family History.J. David Velleman - 2005 - Philosophical Papers 34 (3):357-378.
A hybrid theory of claim-rights.Gopal Sreenivasan - 2005 - Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 25 (2):257-274.

View all 6 references / Add more references