Anonymity and Donation Advantages & Disadvan-tages

Donation programs including sperm, egg and embryo donation has been practiced as infertility treatment throughout the world. Iran is the only Islamic country in which donation programs are practiced. Embryo donation has law but egg and sperm do-nations are accepted by decree of clergy scholars. For embryo donation a practice guideline is released by ministry of health attached to the law in which anonymity is mandatory and the documents of this treatment is highly classified. But for egg and sperm donation there is no national guideline and every infertility center has its own protocol. Anonymity has some ad-vantages and disadvantages: the most important advantage is to prevent future lawsuits claiming for the child. There are cases of claiming for return of embryo donation resulting child and it seems to be more in the future. When the donor and recipi-ent do not know each other, there cannot be such a claim. Also some lawsuits about inheritance, guardianship, expenditure and custody can also be prevented and most probably can bring peaceful life or the child. On the other hand anonymity has some disadvantages: the most important disadvantage is ignor-ing the right of knowing genetic lineage for the child. The child can be deprived from bone marrow or can be marriage between genetically brothers and sisters. All the advantages and disad-vantages can be changed by updating the law and solving the lineage problem for donation resulting children by accepting of legal parents which is not currently accepted by clergy scholars and law.

Keywords:

Embryo Donation , Law , Anonymity , Sperm Dona-tion , Egg Donation