[Anonymous gamete donation: what to protect and does it violate the human rights?].
The French legislation about gamete donation imposes anonymity between the donor and the demanders, in reference to the principles of protection of the human dignity that are applied in other fields of biomedicine. We are here wondering about this choice: does this obligation really protect the human rights that are one of the ethical bases of law? At the time the French law was written, anonymity in gamete donation was inherited from the practice of the French CECOS but it has now become controversial. Many European countries have opened the access to the genetic origins. There is no evidence for this practice to be an efficient protection of the respect of human body and the disinterested nature of donation. Concerning gametes, it seems that it protects a social object, the parental project, but that it has no influence on the protection of parenthood, filiation, and the concept that humankind is not only biological. At last, we analyse the most important human rights documents to assume the hypothesis that anonymous gamete donation, although not violating the human rights, is an implement for Foucault's biopower, far from protecting the ethical foundations of human dignity.
Guibert
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Service de gynécologie-obstétrique-II, faculté de médecine, APHP, université René-Descartes, unité de médecine de la reproduction, hôpital Cochin, 82, avenue Denfert-Rochereau, 75014 Paris, France. juliette.guibert@cch.aphp.fr
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D003219:Confidentiality / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D040941:Heredity; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*