It was a long -term right. As of Monday, March 31, children designed from a donation will have access to their origins once adults, if they wish.
“This is a new right, very important for adults born from a donation, and provided by the Bioethics Law of 2021, which becomes effective,” said the biomedicine agency.
Once important, they will have access to “identification and non -identifiers of data” of the donor that has allowed its design: name or age, physical characteristics, professional and family situation, health status, motivations, even a letter that would be directed to them.
Mandatory donor agreement since 2022
Since September 2022, sperm donor or oocyte donor must necessarily consent to the future dissemination of these data.
But the health authorities have planned a transition period, until March 30, during which the “old regime” gametes, whose donor did not agree to collect the secret in these data, could be used.
“A date chosen to sell gamete actions,” according to Timothée Marteau, vice president of Pmanonymy, an association that represents adults of a donation, defending access to the origins.
Former anonymous donations still used
Timothée Marteau discovered to have a genetic mutation that predisposes cancer by finding his donor through a DNA test. He brought a young woman from the same donor to discover the 29 who had a tumor.
“The instructions were to use the brightness of ancient donations as a priority for” empty actions, “explains Dr. Bérengère Ducrocq, head of the center for the study and conservation of eggs and human people (Cecos) in Lille.
Transfers between CECO have been organized. “We received Rennes shine, which allowed us to keep aside the brightness of the new donors,” said Dr. Ducrocq.
For the pmanonym, this policy leads to give birth to children who will remain in the dark in their origins. “It would have been preferable not to use the brightness of donors who reject anonymity.
Long procedures that rarely lead
Many donation adults contact the Access Commission for people born of medical assistance to procreation of third -party donors (Capadud). A long procedure that rarely leads to obtaining the donor’s identity.
Among these people, there is “a feeling of anger”: “In the name of which doctors deprive children of the possibility of finding their origin when this decision should return to them? We are the first worried,” said Timothée Marteau, who sits in the Capadd.
PMA professionals and future parents’ associations did not want these gametes to be destroyed. But bamp!, Collective of patients, from medical assistance to procreation, regrets that the parents have not always been informed “and” have not had the option “of the type of gametes (old or new diet) that they attributed to them, says Virginie Rio, founder of Bamp!, Associated, as pmanonymy, with working groups of the biomedicine agency.
“We have expressed our concerns that we use tank funds and that we give old games, that we can ask ourselves about the quality and whose anonymous donors know,” said Margaux Gandelon, founder of Mam’en Solo, which brings together single women involved in a PMA.
Anonymous gametes destroyed on March 31
And for her, the reform is not far enough. “There is no legal or ethical obstacle to give parents useful information about the donor, without waiting for the majority of the child,” said the founder of Mam’en Solo.
To find out if he has a growth delay, my pediatrician needs to know the size of the father, observes, for example, and adds that his little daughter born of a donation made in Denmark “already knows that his father has green eyes, play music.”
After March 31, it is assumed that the “old regime” gametes are destroyed. On the other hand, it has just been granted a new exemption for undefted embryos, which have been designed with the oocyte of a woman and the sperm of a donor who has not agreed to communicate data on his identity.
Source: BFM TV
