title: Reconsidering the number of offspring per gamete donor in the Dutch open-identity system.
abstract: The introduction of legislation in the Netherlands in 2004 enabling donor offspring to identify and make contact with their donors has led to a need to reconsider the number of offspring that an individual semen donor may produce. To this end, we made a survey on the limits for offspring per donor in 29 different countries, distinguishing between systems with anonymous and open-identity sperm donation. We counted donations as individual offspring conceived, or as the number of women/families helped, by a single donor. The interests of the various participants in gamete donation in open-identity and anonymous systems are considered with some of the basic assumptions and interactions between the different parties that might be used to formulate reasonable guidelines. A number of recommendations are made.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology/Semen Bank, Rijnstate, Wagnerlaan 55, Arnhem, The Netherlands. pjanssens@rijnstate.nl
authors.forename: Pim M W
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Janssens
authors.forename: Annemiek W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Nap
authors.forename: Laszlo F J M M
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Bancsi
mesh_terms: D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D007316:Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D013094:Spermatozoa; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data