Anonymity of sperm donors under threat

Does the removal of anonymity reduce sperm donors in Australia?

The National Health and Medical Research Council's guidelines implemented in 2005 removed a sperm donor's ability to remain anonymous in every Australian State except Victoria, which had removed anonymity completely by 1998. To assess the impact of these changes on sperm donor numbers in Australia, Assisted Reproductive Technology clinics were surveyed to obtain sperm donation figures between 2...

Sperm donor anonymity and compensation: an experiment with American sperm donors

Most sperm donation that occurs in the USA proceeds through anonymous donation. While some clinics make the identity of the sperm donor available to a donor-conceived child at age 18 as part of 'open identification' or 'identity release programs,' no US law requires clinics to do so, and the majority of individuals do not use these programs. By contrast, in many parts of the world, there have b...

How doctors' anonymity in family courts is under threat: Gornall is way out of date.

Editor—Gornall is embarrassingly out of date in his detailed analysis of the B case (which was dealt with by the family courts nearly three years ago), and its relevance to proposed changes in the law to make the English family court system more transparent. Since then, notwithstanding the ever increasingly exaggerated claims from some quarters that opening the family courts would harm children...

Withdrawal of consent by sperm donors.

Anonymity and openness and the recruitment of gamete donors. Part I: semen donors.

Since 1 April 2005, gamete donors in the United Kingdom (UK) have to be willing, in the future, to be identified to offspring should the offspring want this. This change in law has lead to considerable anxiety about the future availability of donors. This paper presents an overview of the research evidence concerning semen donors' views on anonymity and openness, as it appears in referred journ...