抄録
In December 2000, The Welfare and Science Council of the Japanese Government released the final report concerning Assisted Reproductive Technology. That report agreed to the use of donor sperm, ova and for the In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer. I think that the final report of the Council has two problems. Firstly, it is objectionable that the client's brothers and sisters are included among the donors. This is an exception to the rule that the donor's name is withheld. Secondly, it is objectionable that children have a right to know their genomic parents. Children born by using donor sperm, ova and embryos, have three kinds of parents. They have real parents, foster parents and genomic parents. The right of these children to have access to the identity of their genomic parents is growing. The first and second problems are closely related. I try to clarify this close relationship in my report. The rights for children to know their genomic parents contradicts the rule of the anonymous donor. If these children know their genomic parents, the donor is not anonymous. I think that the client's brothers and sisters form majority of all donors. Children have been born by their uncles' sperm and their aunts' ova. The children are very shocked to learn their origins. The parent-child relationship becomes very complex. A new Council of the Assisted Reproductive Technology started in 2001. This Council discussed the rights for children to know their origins. But the Council members have, as yet, not formed any definite opinion. I think that the rights for children to know their origin is more important than the rule of anonymous donor, because children's rights take priority over parental desires.
