Reconsidering the number of offspring per gamete donor in the Dutch open-identity system

The introduction of legislation in the Netherlands in 2004 enabling donor offspring to identify and make contact with their donors has led to a need to reconsider the number of offspring that an individual semen donor may produce. To this end, we made a survey on the limits for offspring per donor i...

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Published in:Human fertility (Cambridge, England) England), 2011-06, Vol.14 (2), p.106-114
Main Authors: Janssens, Pim M. W., Nap, Annemiek W., Bancsi, Laszlo F. J. M. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
anonymity
Confidentiality - legislation & jurisprudence
considerations
donor children
Government Regulation
guidelines
Humans
Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous - legislation & jurisprudence
Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous - statistics & numerical data
limits
Male
Netherlands
offspring
open identity
Semen
sperm donation
Spermatozoa
Tissue Donors - legislation & jurisprudence
Tissue Donors - statistics & numerical data
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Summary:The introduction of legislation in the Netherlands in 2004 enabling donor offspring to identify and make contact with their donors has led to a need to reconsider the number of offspring that an individual semen donor may produce. To this end, we made a survey on the limits for offspring per donor in 29 different countries, distinguishing between systems with anonymous and open-identity sperm donation. We counted donations as individual offspring conceived, or as the number of women/families helped, by a single donor. The interests of the various participants in gamete donation in open-identity and anonymous systems are considered with some of the basic assumptions and interactions between the different parties that might be used to formulate reasonable guidelines. A number of recommendations are made.
ISSN:1464-7273
1742-8149
DOI:10.3109/14647273.2011.577886