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dc.contributor.authorGroll, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-24T10:25:06Z
dc.date.available2024-06-24T10:25:06Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90983
dc.description.abstractEach year, tens of thousands of children are conceived with donated sperm or eggs, aka donated gametes. By some estimates, there are over 1 million donor-conceived people in the United States and, of course, many more the world over. Some know they are donor-conceived. Some don’t. Some know the identity of their donors. Others never will. Conceiving People: Identity, Genetics and Gamete Donation 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 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. Questions about what the donor-conceived 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 value, if any, is there in knowing who your genetic progenitors are? To what extent 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—the person responsible for lovingly raising a child—in the first place?en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBD Medical profession::MBDC Medical ethics and professional conducten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophyen_US
dc.subject.othergamete donation, sperm donor, egg donor, parental obligations, genetic knowledge, anonymous donor, open donor, children, parentsen_US
dc.titleConceiving Peopleen_US
dc.title.alternativeGenetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donationen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1093/oso/9780190063054.001.0001en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2en_US
oapen.pages257en_US
oapen.place.publicationNew Yorken_US


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