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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2005;294:2681-2683.

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Montreal, Quebec—As assisted reproductive technologies help ever-increasing numbers of infertile couples create families, scientists and physicians are grappling with questions of how to handle information about sperm, egg, and embryo donations. Should donor identity remain confidential, or should it be revealed in the interests of the child’s own identity and health? And should parents be forced to tell a child that he or she was conceived through donation if they do not wish to do so?

Members of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society discussed these issues at their joint annual meeting, held here in October. While the ethics committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine supports disclosure of a donor’s identity, forced disclosure raises concerns, including possible declines in donor recruitment and potential parental demands on donors later in life.

Societies are pondering the potential benefit or . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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