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Each year, tens of thousands of children are conceived with donated
gametes (sperm or eggs). By some estimates, there are over one
million donor-conceived people in the United States and, of course,
many more the world over. Some know they are donor-conceived. Some
do not. Some know the identity of their donors. Others never will.
Questions about what donor-conceived people should know about their
genetic progenitors are hugely significant for literally millions
of people, including donor-conceived people, their parents, and
donors. But the practice of gamete donation also provides a vivid
occasion for thinking about questions that matter to everyone. What
is the value of knowing who your genetic progenitors are? How are
our identities bound up with knowing where we come from? What
obligations do parents have to their children? And what makes
someone a parent in the first place? In Conceiving People:
Identity, Genetics and Gamete Donation, Daniel Groll argues that
people who plan to create a child with donated gametes should
choose a donor whose identity will be made available to the
resulting child. This is not, Groll argues, because having genetic
knowledge is fundamentally important. Rather, it is because
donor-conceived people are likely to develop a significant interest
in having genetic knowledge and parents must help satisfy their
children's significant interests. In other words, because a
donor-conceived person is likely to care about having genetic
knowledge, their parents should care too.
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