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Necessary Subjects: The Need For A Mandatory National Donor Gamete Registry, Naomi R. Cahn
Necessary Subjects: The Need For A Mandatory National Donor Gamete Registry, Naomi R. Cahn
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This brief article calls for a mandatory national donor gamete registry. It first discusses the history of secrecy in the adoption context before turning to issues involving confidentiality in the donor context. After analyzing the issues involved in maintaining the secrecy of donor gametes, the article ultimately recommends the establishment of a national information registry, similar to that in place in numerous other countries, to keep track of children both through donor egg, embryo, and sperm, as well as the identities of the gamete providers. Participation in the registry would be mandatory for anyone involved in supplying donor gametes. Once …
Human Identity: The Question Presented By Human-Animal Hybridization, Jospeh Vining
Human Identity: The Question Presented By Human-Animal Hybridization, Jospeh Vining
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What makes each of us, as individuals, human to one another, or, more generally, what makes an individual creature human? We have not often had to ask the question because of the species line based on reproductive capacity and incapacity, although "degrees of humanness" were explored in the various eugenic programs of the last century. Now the biotechnological possibility of fusing human and other forms of life is presenting the question in a new and serious way. If the traditional biological means of defining species are no longer reliable, what other criteria might determine what is "human" and what is …