Response: Rethinking sperm-donor anonymity: Of changed selves, nonidentity, and one-night stands

Georgetown Law Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 431-447

  Cohen, I Glenn ^a  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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1. As evidence of this movement, consider a recent New York Times "Room for Debate" online conversation to which Cahn contributed.
2. See Making Laws About Making Babies, N.Y. TIMES (Sept. 13, 2011), http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/09/13/making-laws-about-making-babies.
3. See generally Naomi Cahn, The New Kinship, 100 GEO. L.J. 367 (2012) (developing a legal framework for "donor-conceived family networks").
4. Naomi Cahn, Accidental Incest: Drawing the Line-or the Curtain?-for Reproductive Technology, 32 HARV. J.L. & GENDER 59 (2009) (discussing how sperm donation may lead to inadvertent inbreeding and the legal protections this necessitates).
5. For a discussion of the foreign regimes, see I. Glenn Cohen, Beyond Best Interests, 96 MINN. L. REV. (forthcoming 2012).
6. Can You Be Anonymous as a Sperm, Egg or Embryo Donor?, HUMAN FERTILISATION & EMBRYOLOGYAUTHORITY, http://www.hfea.gov.uk/1973.html (last updated Nov. 10, 2009).
7. See Pratten v. British Columbia (Att'y Gen.), 2011 BCSC 656 (Can.).
8. See I. Glenn Cohen, Regulating Reproduction: The Problem with Best Interests, 96 MINN. L. REV. (forthcoming 2011).
9. See I. Glenn Cohen, The Right Not To Be a Genetic Parent?, 81 S. CAL. L. REV. 1115, 1174-80 (2008)
10. See J.E. Scheib et al., Choosing Identity-Release Sperm Donors: The Parents' Perspective 13-18 Years Later, 18 HUM. REPROD. 1115, 1120 (2003).
11. See I. Glenn Cohen, Intentional Diminishment, the Non-Identity Problem, and Legal Liability, 60 HASTINGS L.J. 347, 348-50 (2008);
12. Dan W. Brock, The Non-Identity Problem and Genetic Harms-The Case of Wrongful Handicaps, 9 BIOETHICS 269, 269-75 (1995).
13. See Gaia Bernstein, Regulating Reproductive Technologies: Timing, Uncertainty, and Donor Anonymity, 90 B.U. L. REV. 1189, 1207-18 (2010)
14. June Carbone & Paige Gottheim, Markets, Subsidies, Regulation, and Trust: Building Ethical Understandings into the Market for Fertility Services, 9 J. GENDER RACE & JUST. 509, 540-41 (2006).
15. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine estimates that with artificial insemination "the monthly chance of pregnancy ranges from 8% to 15%." AM. SOC'Y FOR REPROD. MED., THIRD PARTY REPRODUCTION (SPERM, EGG, AND EMBRYO DONATION AND SURROGACY): A GUIDE FOR PATIENTS 12 (2006), available at http://www.asrm.org/uploadedFiles/ASRM-Content/Resources/Patient-Resources/ Fact-Sheets-and-Info-Booklets/thirdparty.pdf.
16. See Ellen Waldman, What Do We Tell the Children?, 35 CAP. U. L. REV. 517, 552-53 (2006).
17. See Axel Gosseries, On Future Generations' Future Rights, 16 J. POL. PHIL. 446, 459-64 (2008).
18. Ferguson v. McKiernan, 940 A.2d 1236, 1248 (Pa. 2007).
19. See Seana Valentine Shiffrin, Wrongful Life, Procreative Responsibility, and the Significance of Harm, 5 LEGAL THEORY 117, 119-20 (1999).
20. John A. Robertson, Procreative Liberty and Harm to Offspring in Assisted Reproduction, 30 AM. J.L. & MED. 7, 16 (2004).
21. See R. McDougall, Acting Parentally: An Argument Against Sex Selection, 31 J. MED. ETHICS 601, 603 (2005).
22. See generally JONATHAN SWIFT, A Modest Proposal, in AMODEST PROPOSAL AND OTHER SATIRICAL WORKS 52 (Dover Publications, Inc. 1996) (1729), available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/ 1080-h/1080-h.htm (proposing, in satirical essay, that the Irish eat their children).
23. See I. Glenn Cohen, The Constitution and the Rights Not To Procreate, 60 STAN. L. REV. 1135, 1147 (2008)
24. See Erin Murphy, Relative Doubt: Familial Searches of DNA Databases, 109 MICH. L. REV. 291, 315 n.106 (2010)
25. Bryan Sykes & Catherine Irven, Surnames and the Y Chromosome, 66 AM. J. HUM. GENETICS 1417, 1418 (2000).
26. See, e.g., Rubin Vase Illusion, OPTICAL-ILLUSIONIST.COM (May 25, 2009), http://www.opticalillusionist.com/illusions/rubin-vase-illusion.
27. Buzzanca v. Buzzanca, 72 Cal. Rptr. 2d 280, 292 (Cal. Ct. App. 1998).
28. See, e.g., Lynn D. Wardle, Global Perspective on Procreation and Parentage by Assisted Reproduction, 35 CAP. U. L. REV. 413, 444-51 (2006).
29. See Susan Golombok et al., Families with Children Conceived by Donor Insemination: A Follow-Up at Age Twelve, 73 CHILD DEV. 952, 966 (2002).
30. See generally Dov Fox, Note, Racial Classification in Assisted Reproduction, 118 YALE L.J. 1844 (2009)