This article from Canada’s National Post focuses on a woman’s quest to give Donor Conceived Persons the right to search for their genetic, but absent parent. This is a right accorded to adopted children, but not to Donor Conceived Persons.
One young woman I interviewed some months ago, who is making a documentary about her story, reported that she had become obsessed with her genetic heritage. She couldn’t understand how it could be assumed that she would feel the same sense of self-worth as children conceived normally. As another sperm donor adult child put it: “If my life is for other people’s purposes, and not my own, then what is the purpose of my life?”
Read it all here.