Rushbrooke Rupert
Bloodlines, UK.
Bull Med Ethics. 2004 Mar(196):13-22.
This paper gives an overview of the research that has been done into people created by donor insemination (DI) (note 1), shows how the secretive way DI is carried out makes objective knowledge of their situation impossible to obtain and describes how doctors support this secrecy. It argues that DI is a social experiment whose potential justifications are implicit theories that have either been falsified or are unfalsifiable, and that consequently DI is conducted unscientifically and unethically. In conclusion, it questions the integrity of the industry and the institutions that support it, and considers where we should go from here.
本文概述了关于通过供体人工授精（DI）产生的人群的研究（注释1），揭示了DI实施过程中的隐秘性如何使得无法客观了解他们的情况，并描述了医生如何支持这种隐秘性。文章认为，DI是一项社会实验，其潜在的正当理由是一些已经被证伪或无法证伪的隐含理论，因此DI的开展既不科学也不符合伦理道德。总之，文章对该行业及其支持机构的诚信提出质疑，并思考我们从这里该何去何从。
