Should a gamete bank verify the non-medical information provided by a donor?
Guido Pennings
Abstract:Over the years, cases of fraud have been discovered where donors have been lying about their characteristics. The question raised by such cases is what the responsibility of the gamete bank is for the non-medical information provided by the donor. The problem is that extended donor profiles contain a large amount of information about different aspects of the donor’s life and that not all this information can be verified or is worth verifying. Two cases are scrutinized in more detail: education and criminal rec… Show more
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