De Lorenzi Mariana, Piñero Verónica B
Faculty of Law at University of Barcelona, Avs Diagonal, 684, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
Université d'Ottawa, Canada.
Per Med. 2009 Jan;6(1):79-92. doi: 10.2217/17410541.6.1.79.
An individual's right to know about their own origins entails a legal system that provides judicial guarantees that make effective the right to know about their genetic ancestors. This is part of the fundamental right to identity and has its basis in the principles of autonomy and dignity: an individual's right to knowledge of their genetic origins is implicitly recognized by article 8 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. As discussed in this paper, even though the European Court of Human Rights has not yet addressed this particular issue, the European legal systems that protect the anonymity of gamete donors and/or embryo donors appear to infringe an individual's right to genetic knowledge and, consequently, breaches Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
个人了解自身身世的权利需要一个法律体系，该体系提供司法保障，以使了解其基因祖先的权利得以有效实现。这是身份基本权利的一部分，其基础是自主和尊严原则：《欧洲保护人权与基本自由公约》第8条隐含地承认了个人了解其基因起源的权利。如本文所讨论的，尽管欧洲人权法院尚未处理这一具体问题，但保护配子捐赠者和/或胚胎捐赠者匿名性的欧洲法律体系似乎侵犯了个人的基因知情权，因此违反了《欧洲人权公约》第8条。
