Secret et anonymat du don de gamètes

Lannou, D. Le

doi:10.1016/j.gyobfe.2010.03.003

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“…Si l'anonymat des donneurs et le secret de la conception ont longtemps été la règle, ces principes sont remis en question depuis une vingtaine d'années, particulièrement depuis que les témoignages d'adultes ainsi conçus soient désormais audibles dans le discours public (Bres, 2019 ;Kermalvezen, 2008 ;Théry, Leroyer, 2014). Les psychologues responsables des consultations en clinique de fertilité soulignent d'ailleurs les dommages occasionnés par les secrets de famille (Allan, 2017 ;Le Lannou, 2010). En ce sens, les parents sont aujourd'hui encouragés à révéler à leurs enfants le recours à un don, même si celui-ci reste anonyme (Brunet, Kunstman, 2013).…”

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Regards croisés de mères, de donneurs et d’enfants de familles lesboparentales en France

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En France, la plupart des mères lesbiennes se tournent vers la procréation médicalement assistée (PMA) pour fonder une famille. Un certain nombre d’entre elles ont cependant recours à un « donneur connu », c’est-à-dire un homme de leur entourage qui accepte de faire un don pour les aider à devenir mères sans pour autant revendiquer une paternité légale. Cet article explore cette configuration familiale en documentant les relations entretenues entre les mères lesbiennes, leur donneur, mais également les enfants issus de ses dons. Quatre rôles endossés par le donneur se dégagent en fonction de la proximité établie avec les mères et de la relation entretenue ou non avec l’enfant au fil du temps : 1) une « quasi » coparentalité planifiée ; 2) un donneur considéré comme un père par une partie de la famille ; 3) un donneur « proche » ou 4) un donneur « distant », voire inconnu.

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Regards croisés de mères, de donneurs et d’enfants de familles lesboparentales en France

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“…The debate on open or anonymous gamete donation continues unabated [ 47 , 48 ], While anonymous gamete donation has long been the preferred practice, a new focus on the rights and interests of donor-conceived children has led a number of countries to shift towards an open-identity system. Recently, the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, while acknowledging that these are very personal choices and that the people involved can have very different opinions [ 49 ], came out in favour of disclosure to the child of donor conception and, if available, any characteristics of the donor that may serve the best interests of offspring [ 50 ].…”

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Italian law on medically assisted reproduction: do women’s autonomy and health matter?

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BackgroundIn Italy in 2004, a very restrictive law was passed on medically assisted reproduction (MAR) (Law 40/2004) that placed Italy at the most conservative end of the European spectrum. The law was widely criticized and many couples seeking MAR brought their cases before the Italian Civil Courts with regard to pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), donor insemination and the issue of consent. Ten years on, having suffered the blows of the Italian Constitutional Court, little remains of law 40/2004.DiscussionIn 2009, the Constitutional Court declared the maximum limit of the number of embryos to be produced and transferred for each cycle (i.e. three), as stated in the original version of the law, to be constitutionally illegitimate. In 2014, the same Court declared as unconstitutional the ban on donor insemination, thus opening the way to heterologous assisted reproduction. Heterologous MAR is therefore perfectly legitimate in Italy. Finally, in 2015 a further ruling by the Constitutional Court granted the right to access MAR to couples who are fertile but carriers of genetic diseases. However, there is still much room for criticism. Many couples and groups are still, in fact, excluded from MAR. Same-sex couples, single women and those of advanced reproductive age are, at the present time, discriminated against in that Italian law denies these subjects access to MAR.SummaryThe history of Law 40/2004 has been a particularly troubled one. Numerous rulings have, over the years, dismantled much of a law constructed in violation of the rights and autonomy of women and couples. However, a number of troubling issues still exist from what is left of the law and the debate is still open at national and transnational level regarding some of the contradictions and gaps in the law highlighted in this article. Only by abolishing the final prohibitions and adopting more liberal views on these controversial yet crucial issues will Law 40/2004 become what it should have been from the start, i.e. a law which outlines the ‘rules of use’ of MAR and not, as it has been until now, a law of bans which sets limits to the freedom to reproduce.

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“…Recent research has underscored the complexities associated with donor compensation and privacy [21,22], as well as embryo disposition [10,23] and abandonment [24] in Ireland. It is disappointing that none of these important issues were explored in the 2009 guidelines.…”

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The evolution of health policy guidelines for assisted reproduction in the Republic of Ireland, 2004-2009

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Sills

2011

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This analysis reports on Irish regulatory policies for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) from 2004-2009, in the context of membership changes within the Medical Council of Ireland. To achieve this, the current (2009) edition of the Guide to Professional Conduct & Ethics was compared with the immediately preceding version (2004). The statutory composition of the Medical Council from 2004-2009 was also studied. Content analysis of the two editions identified the following differences: 1) The 2004 guide states that IVF "should only be used after thorough investigation has failed to reveal a treatable cause of the infertility", while the 2009 guide indicates IVF "should only be used after thorough investigation has shown that no other treatment is likely to be effective"; 2) The 2004 stipulation stating that fertilized ovum (embryo) "must be used for normal implantation and must not be deliberately destroyed" is absent from the 2009 guidelines; 3) The option to donate "unused fertilised ova" (embryos) is omitted from the 2009 guidelines; 4) The 2009 guidelines state that ART should be offered only by "suitably qualified professionals, in appropriate facilities, and according to the international best practice"; 5) The 2009 guidelines introduce criteria that donations as part of a donor programme should be "altruistic and non-commercial". These last two points represent original regulatory efforts not appearing in the 2004 edition. The Medical Practitioners Act 2007 reduced the number of physicians on the Medical Council to 6 (of 25) members. The ethical guidelines from 2004 preceded this change, while the reconstituted Medical Council published the 2009 version. Between 2004 and 2009, substantial modifications in reproductive health policy were incorporated into the Medical Council's ethical guidelines. The absence of controlling Irish legislation means that patients and IVF providers in Ireland must rely upon these guidelines by default. Our critique traces the evolution of public policy on IVF during a time when the membership of the Medical Council changed radically; reduced physician contribution to decision-making was associated with diminished protection for IVF-derived embryos in Ireland. Considerable uncertainty on IVF practice in Ireland remains.

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Secret et anonymat du don de gamètes

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Regards croisés de mères, de donneurs et d’enfants de familles lesboparentales en France

Regards croisés de mères, de donneurs et d’enfants de familles lesboparentales en France

Italian law on medically assisted reproduction: do women’s autonomy and health matter?

The evolution of health policy guidelines for assisted reproduction in the Republic of Ireland, 2004-2009

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