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Legislation changes in the U.S. mark watershed changes to donor conception
Read about the first U.S. state to pass a bill banning anonymous donation of gametes providing protections and other legislative changes providing new safeguards for those conceived with donor assistance.
“All of the locks that guarded her secrets no longer worked” - An interview with author Peter J. Boni
The conversation between host Brianne Kirkpatrick and Boni swings back and forth, exploring the personal impacts of a misattributed parentage discovery on Boni and his awareness of the need for societal change. Boni shares how the new trauma of the NPE ('not parent expected') discovery rekindled some of the old trauma from his past, requiring hard work in the therapist's office to work through.
Is It Wrong to Help in an Egg or Sperm Donor Search?
Should I help someone who wants to search for her egg donor? Is it any different from a search for a biological parent in an adoption search?
Telling an Adult or Minor Child They Were Donor-Conceived if They Haven’t Been Told Yet
If you are a parent of a child who was conceived with a donor egg or sperm and they do not yet know it, the time to be proactive is now.