MRSi 2025: Lights, Camera, Action - The Stars of ART
Expert Lecture Series: Moving to All Open Gamete Donation from the start: Debating the Hit and Misses of Current Gamete Donation Strategies CME/CE APA
| Date | Thursday, June 5, 2025 |
| Time | 11:45am - 12:30pm CST |
| Location | Superior |
Summary
More clinics, agencies, and gamete banks are moving towards open gamete donation for their donors. Donor-conceived people have been advocating for more transparency in donor gametes as a way to limit potential harms such as huge genetic sibling pods, to increase access to their family medical history and agency in deciding what if any contact they want with genetic family members. Some still worry that open gamete donation will further limit the donors available, and open intended parents to discrimination. •
Learning Objectives
1. Identify the pros and cons of both open and closed donor identification.
2. Understand perspectives of different stakeholders, including donor-conceived people, recipient parents, donors, fertility clinics, and agencies.
3. Increase knowledge of current regulations and laws that have impacted policy in the US.
4. Understand the possible emotional and psychological impacts of open vs. closed donation.
Deborah Simmons, PhD
Amelia Swanson, PhD