Legal age limits in accessing donor information: experiences of donor-conceived people, parents, sperm donors and counsellors

Bolt, Sophie H.; Maas, A. Janneke B.M.; Indekeu, Astrid; van Nistelrooij, Inge

doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2024.103846

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2024.103846

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Legal age limits in accessing donor information: experiences of donor-conceived people, parents, sperm donors and counsellors

Sophie H. Bolt,

A. Janneke B.M. Maas,

Astrid Indekeu

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Response: arguments to abolish the legal age limits of access to information about the gamete donor by donor offspring

van Nistelrooij,

Woestenburg

2024

J Med Ethics

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TheJournal of Medical Ethicspreviously published on the debate in the UK and the Netherlands concerning the legal age limits imposed on donor-conceived people for access to information about the identity of gamete and embryo donors. In that publication, three arguments were foregrounded against lowering these age limits as a general rule for all donor-conceived people. In this contribution, we engage with these arguments and argue why we think they are insufficient to maintain the age limits. In contrast, we argue for a more suited, contextual and relational ethical framework based on care ethics, which emphasises relational autonomy and its dynamic, contextual development. This framework, we argue, provides a comprehensive approach for the analysis we made of the question of age limits and was applied in research performed in the Netherlands, commissioned by the Dutch Minister of Health. The framework enabled us to weigh the multidisciplinary—legal, psychological, phenomenological and ethical—findings of our research.

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Response: arguments to abolish the legal age limits of access to information about the gamete donor by donor offspring

van Nistelrooij,

Woestenburg

2024

J Med Ethics

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Legal age limits in accessing donor information: experiences of donor-conceived people, parents, sperm donors and counsellors

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Response: arguments to abolish the legal age limits of access to information about the gamete donor by donor offspring

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