The Donation and Sale of Human Eggs and Sperm (opens in new tab)

The rights and responsibilities that attach to parenthood are generally understood to be very weighty. Consequently, determining whether or not gamete donors are parents is a question that has attracted much attention. But even if gamete donors are not parents in the deeper ethical sense, they may still have considerable rights and obligations towards their biological offspring. While there is considerable overlap here with the parenthood literature (see the entry on parenthood and procreatio...