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A Balancing Act? The Rights Of Donor-Conceived Children To Know Their Origins, Brigitte J. Clark Dr
A Balancing Act? The Rights Of Donor-Conceived Children To Know Their Origins, Brigitte J. Clark Dr
Brigitte J Clark Dr
Abstract Internationally, donor-conceived children’s rights to know their biological origins have been recognised to some extent by the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). With the drafting of the Article 7 (1) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), as supplemented by Article 8, such children’s rights to know their biological origins whist they are children, and not only later as adults, were acknowledged for the first time, though not explicitly. Anonymous sperm donation is now banned in eleven jurisdictions, including Sweden and England and Wales. By contrast, France still does not …