- Title
- Prospective application of a five-step regulatory assessment model to a proposed federal sperm donor registry in Australia: Is it in the public interest?
- Creator
- Sawyer, Neroli
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/68561
- Identifier
- vital:3253
- Identifier
- ISSN:1320-159X
- Abstract
- It has been proposed that a nationally mandated donor registry be established in Australia to provide data for estimating the possible number of inadvertent half-sibling matings resulting from the multiple use of anonymous donors in donor insemination and to assist identity-release donors and their donor-inseminated children to establish contact. A five-step regulatory assessment model, as described by Johnson and Petersen in 2008, was applied prospectively to the proposed donor registry to identify public interest issues. The resultant issues concern the public ethical interest in child welfare; the public health interest in avoiding genetic abnormalities/disease; public socio-political and legal interests in avoiding inadvertent consanguineous relationships; public ethical and health interests in avoiding identity issues in the donor-inseminated child; and public socio-ethical interests in providing nationally mandated, comprehensive records of donor insemination outcomes. These results provide a basis for further discussion in regard to donor insemination legislation at the federal level.
- Publisher
- Thomson Reuters (Australia/NZ)
- Relation
- Journal of law and medicine Vol. 17, no. 4 (2010), p. 608-616
- Rights
- Copyright Thomson Reuters (Australia/NZ)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1801 Law; Australia; Humans; Male; Registries; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Spermatozoa; Tissue Donors
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