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Re:Reasons not to reveal your DNA by creeble on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:37AM (#19739446)
Yes they should, and others too (see my GP response above). Anonymity, such as it was, helped prevent risk. Now we need a law to limit the liability of a donor.

Are there already such laws?

Re:Reasons not to reveal your DNA by robhunter on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:58AM (#19739723)
Anonymity created many, many risks.

There are documented cases of genetic half-siblings having a sexual relationship because they did not know they were donor conceived.

There are documented cases of suicides from adults finding out they were conceived from anonymous sperm donation and that "their Dad was not their Dad."

90% of donor conceived adults do not know they are donor conceived - and so all have provided incorrect medical history information to their doctors. Does that not seem like a risk?

Re:Reasons not to reveal your DNA by SkyBelow on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @01:14PM (#19740569)
Now how to apply such a law that wouldn't also apply to people who reproduced in the standard fashion but don't want to disclose whom they did so with?
Re:Reasons not to reveal your DNA by opportune on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @04:29PM (#19742281)
Case three doesn't have much to do with anonymity. Even a non-anonymous donation doesn't mean your parents would tell you about it while still a child
Re:Reasons not to reveal your DNA by robhunter on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @06:51PM (#19743330)
They're more related than it might immediately appear - purposefully choosing an anonymous donor over an open ID donor is often correlated with shame and secrecy around infertility, whereas choosing an open ID donor signifies acceptance, empathy, and a lack of shame/secrecy.

A much higher % of people conceived with an open ID donor are told of their origins.