Articles & Issues
ISSUES
The Donor Sibling Registry has collaborated on several informational papers on various issues affecting the donor conception community. Also listed are papers/materials we thought would be of value to our members.
Talking With Children About Ovum Donation (PDF) American Fertility Association
The case for comprehensive medical testing of gamete donors (PDF) BioNews.org.uk
Voices of the donor conceived, donors and parents (DOC)
Wendy Kramer's Speech, 3/28/08 (PDF), The DSR: Educating, Connecting and Supporting Donor Families. 3/08 Tracking Change DePaul Law School Symposium
Are You Thinking of Donating Sperm? (PDF)
Donor Disclosure: When Telling the Truth to Your Child Isn’t Easy, and What to Do About It (PDF)
Telling and Talking - A Series of Booklets produced by the 'How to Tell' Project. The Donor Conception Network’s ‘Telling and Talking’ series of materials give detailed information, advice and tips for the parents of donor conceived children on how to approach telling their child. These booklets are aimed at parents of children aged 0 – 7, 8 – 11, 12 – 16 and young people and adults over the age of 17. The PDF's can be downloaded for free.
http://www.donor-conception-network.org/telltalkpubs.htm
In addition, if you are trying to Decide Which Sperm Bank to Use: I can give my impressions as to which sperm banks I think are more receptive to the needs of donor families. Feel free to contact me.
Articles of Interest
Reproductive Genetic Screening: More Questions Than Answers Genomics Law Report
Children's human rights and assisted human reproduction BioNews
Implications of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Transmitted by Sperm Donation American Medical Association
Genetic Screening of Sperm and Oocyte Donor: Ethical and Policy Implications American Medical Association
What's in a Name, Part 2: Consider "half-siblings" Concurring Opinions
Scrambled Ethics: Embryonic-stem-cell research exploits egg donors, too. (PDF) National Review
"Donor Offspring" Redefining Family Article by John Burger
Old Lessons for a New World: Applying Adoption Research and Experience to Assisted Reproductive Technology The Adoption Institute
Interests, obligations and rights of the donor in gamete donation Ethics Comittee of the ASRM
17 Year Old Sacha Finn's Guerin Visiting Scholars Program Essay, 2/09
Ova Time: Women Line Up To Donate Eggs -- for Money The Wall Street Journal (PDF)
Donor Offspring May Feel Betrayal, Anger: Study Medical News Today (PDF)
ADVANCE Article
Necessary Subjects: The Need for a Mandatory National Donor Gamete Registry (PDF)4/1/08, By Naomi Cahn
It's Time For An Egg Donor Registry & Long Term Followup (PDF)Genetics and Society, 11/14/2007, by Dr. Jennifer Schneider
A Legal Case Against Sperm Donors (PDF) by Thomas K. Sylvester
States Urged to Open Adoption Records (PDF) CNN.com
Ryan and Anna: Two Half Siblings Meet (PDF) American Fertility Association Newsletter May 2007
Ken Daniels Donor gametes:anonymous or identified?(PDF)
Men Still Donating Sperm (PDF) Manchester Evening News
DNA & the Exploding Myth of Donor Anonymity (PDF) American Fertility Association Newsletter April 2007
The Truth About Donor 1084 (PDF)SELF Magazine, by Jennifer Wolff
Fairfax Cryobank Response to Editor (PDF)
Informing Offspring of Their Conception by Gamite Donation
Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Should I Tell & When To Tell
by Ellen Singer, LCSW-C, Adoption Program Specialist
"Anonymous Sperm Donor Traced On Internet"
New Scientist.com
Sperm Bank of California Research
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