"Inseminated People Given Same Rights As Adopted People" or "Why Wasn't This Law?"

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

EDIT: and I think the article makes a good point that there are also some pretty valid health reasons for knowing who your biological parent is; someone needing information about their risk for medical conditions or searching for a bone marrow donor or some shit shouldn't need to die just because someone's uncomfortable with knowing where their sperm ended up.

All (should be, in most cases) on file, except the donor thing. In which case, yeah maybe a doctor could contact the biological father. They test for all kinds of congenital diseases and what not before using the sperm.

I don't see where this compares to adoption though. It's an entirely different ball park. If you were adopted your biological parents actually conceived you, maybe one or both of them had reasons beyond just not wanting a child, for putting you up for adoption.

With sperm donation it's usually just some guy wanted the fifty bucks. In cases where that ISN'T true, it's a situation where the family raising the child knew the donor, anyway.

There's no reason besides health that the anonymity should be compromised. And the only time health becomes a reason, with all the tests that you have to have available when you donate sperm, is when you need a transplant. And for some reason your biological sperm donor father is the only person available.

Beyond all that, you also have to consider that one donation can make anywhere from 10-20 kids. It seems pretty unfair to expect some guy who donated sperm once to deal with 10-20 people showing up at his doorstep, potentially complicating the fuck out of his life, just for that.

I just have to seriously question why anyone would need to know this badly enough to compromise someone else's right to anonymity.