Adams Damian, Lorbach Caroline
Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia.
J Law Med. 2012 Jun;19(4):707-21.
Donor conception practices in Australia have left thousands of donor-conceived people, their families and gamete donors bereft of information. The lack of a nationally timeline-consistent approach to information access has driven these people to seek support and information from self-help groups, online communities and even their own DNA. This article examines the historical perspective of information access and how progress is being made through lobbying and public awareness. To determine the current status of information availability, fertility clinics around Australia were surveyed. It is argued that current practices continue to fail donor-conceived people, their families and gamete donors, and that until all donor offspring are afforded the right to know their genetic family history, they will continue to suffer discrimination, and potentially risk psychological and physical trauma.
澳大利亚的捐赠受孕做法使成千上万通过捐赠受孕的人、他们的家人以及配子捐赠者失去了信息。在获取信息方面缺乏全国性的、时间线一致的方法，促使这些人从自助团体、在线社区甚至他们自己的DNA中寻求支持和信息。本文审视了获取信息的历史视角，以及通过游说和提高公众意识所取得的进展。为了确定信息可获取的现状，对澳大利亚各地的生育诊所进行了调查。有人认为，目前的做法继续让通过捐赠受孕的人、他们的家人以及配子捐赠者失望，而且在所有捐赠后代都被赋予了解其遗传家族史的权利之前，但他们将继续遭受歧视，并可能面临心理和身体创伤的风险。
