Change privacy laws for Australia’s donor-conceived

Opinion: Retrospective laws need to change to allow a donor-conceived woman with heritable bowel cancer access to information about her sperm donor.

Bionews: 2 September 2011

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OK sperm (or egg) donation is hardly an emerging technology, but the genetic knowledge and right of access to it is.  This story just highlights some of the issues that might emerge from some of the assisted reproductive technologies being investigated at the moment.