title: Commentary on Craft and Thornhill: new ethical strategies to recruit gamete donors.
abstract: The main problem for the procedure of gamete donation at present is that the abolition of the donor anonymity rule has destroyed coherence among the guidelines. To restore coherence, a new unified picture of the role of the gamete donor should be constructed. It is doubtful that payment will increase the number of candidates in a system with identifiable donors. Nevertheless, if non-financial rewards of donors do not suffice to motivate candidates, an 'all-inclusive' financial allowance analogous to volunteers in medical trials could be considered to prevent a complete collapse of the system.
authors.affiliation: Ghent University, Centre for Environmental Philosophy and Bioethics, Department of Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, B-9000 Gent, Belgium. Guido.Pennings@UGent.be
authors.forename: Guido
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pennings
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D035881:Compensation and Redress; D003219:Confidentiality; D030881:Disclosure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018587:Oocyte Donation / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics*; D011247:Pregnancy; D013094:Spermatozoa; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000941:ethics; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics*