with the end of the anonymity of gamete donors, the search for origin made easier

Maëva is delighted with the establishment of the commission which will help her find the man who gave his sperm allowing her to conceive. She was born in 1992, i.e. before the bioethics law which now requires donors to communicate to the majority of the child, his identity and his identifying data, and she would like to know more about the one from whom she inherited half of his genetic heritage. “I’m super curious to know what he might look like, are there any character traits he passed on to me… These are questions I ask myself and answering them might allow me to get to know me better”she hopes.

>> TESTIMONIALS. Bioethics: born from a sperm donation, they tell the quest towards their anonymous parent

The approach does not give any guarantee since, if the commission is responsible for recovering personal information from the Center for the study and conservation of human eggs and sperm, donors remain free to oppose their information being revealed. .

Doïna donated oocytes in 2015, and says she is ready to reconsider her anonymity. “Me, the donation, I was really doing it for future mothersshe confides moved. Not necessarily for the children themselves.

“But I tell myself that somewhere, they deserve this right to know a little where they come from so that it does not remain a question that takes up too much space in their heads.”

Doïna, egg donor in 2015

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It is also about accepting the evolution of our society for Patrick. He donated his sperm in 1990 and was contacted two years ago by a young man in his thirties, who identified him as his parent through a genetic test on the internet. “Obviously it affects me directly, personally, but it didn’t actually shock me.he delivers. You have to be aware that society is changing very quickly, that genetic research is changing very quickly. You can deny things, but you can hardly refuse reality.”

If these tests have so far not allowed Marion to find her donor, it is in them that she prefers to place her hopes since she was born in 1982, twelve years before the Cecos, the Centers d Study and Conservation of Human Eggs and Sperm, be legally obligated to archive donor information. “Most likely, if a file existed on my donor linking it to my parents, chances are it no longer exists. So I’m doing it a bit on principle”admits Marion.

“I prefer to tell myself that there is little chance that it will work so as not to be too disappointed. But it is a step forward.”

Marion, born from a donation in 1982

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Another question concerns the processing time for each file. The Ministry of Health ensures that the commission will acknowledge receipt within two months, but specifies that it cannot however commit to a response time, given the potential difficulty in finding certain donors.