Genetic advance and anonymity policies

Authors

  • Natacha Salome Lima Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) – Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología. Buenos Aires, Argentina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6728-961X
  • Mariela Rossi Sociedad Argentina de Medicina Reproductiva SAMER

Abstract

In recent years, the number of assisted reproduction treatments with the donation of gametes (ovules and/or sperm) has increased in Argentina. The filiation by heterologous assisted reproduction techniques interrogates the traditional “blood inheritance” object of privileged study of the social sciences. In recent decades, the donor anonymity paradigm has changed in many countries. In turn, it has been suggested that rapid and widespread advances in genetic testing could modify anonymity policies. What are the consequences of substantiating the disclosure of genetic/identifying information based on the greater access that genetic tests allow? This reflection is based on two aspects: the public aspect – which analyzes the paradoxes contained in the articles of the new Civil and Commercial Code (2015) – and the intimate one, which locates the coordinates on which
the singular transmission of the origins is inscribed.

Keywords:

Reproductive techniques, assisted. Bioethics. Direct-to-consumer screening and testing.
Vol. 27 No. 4 (2019): Revista Bioética 27(4)

Published:

2019-12-19

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Lima NS, Rossi M. Genetic advance and anonymity policies. Rev. bioét.(Impr.). [Internet]. 2019 Dec. 19 [cited 2024 May 11];27(4). Available from: http://revistabioetica.cfm.org.br/revista_bioetica/article/view/1969