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TDale313

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1. The reaching out on her part...
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 02:54 PM
Feb 2019

Particularly not to the donor but to his mother, was the biggest problem here, imo. She crossed lines she legally had committed not to.

As far as the DNA testing sites... the whole industry is a massive privacy issue... not just for the person taking the test but their blood relatives. You are voluntarily giving these private companies very personal information. Once they have it, you really have very little say in how it gets used or who eventually has access to it. It’s very interesting technology, but the laws are way behind the science.

Editing to add: even if the parents never go searching for the donor, how in this day and age could any sperm bank guarantee complete anonymity? There is nothing preventing an adult who was conceived this way from taking a DNA test.

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