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    If medical interests underwrite a right to genetic inform... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Medical interests alone are not sufficient grounds for prohibiting donor anonymity.

    If medical interests underwrite a right to genetic information as a precondition for equal opportunity, they are not merely instrumental interests but justice-grounding ones that override donor privacy claims.

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    Donor privacy claims(as used in bioethics and medical law)
    The right of people who provide genetic samples to keep information about themselves and their DNA confidential.
    Genetic information(as used in bioethics and privacy discussions)
    Data about a person's DNA and inherited traits that could reveal health risks, family history, or other biological characteristics.
    Instrumental interests(as used in ethics)
    Benefits or goals that are valuable mainly as a means to achieve something else, rather than being valuable in themselves.
    Justice-grounding(as used in political philosophy and ethics)
    Something that provides a foundation or legitimate reason for what justice requires; a principle that justifies a claim of fairness.
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    (as used in bioethics)
    The benefits and needs related to health and medicine—in this case, the argument that doctors need genetic information to treat patients better.
    Override(as used in ethics)
    To set aside or ignore one thing in favor of something else that seems more important.
    Precondition(as what recognitive practices are for conceptual content)
    Something that must exist or happen first, before something else can exist or happen.
    equal opportunity(egalitarian conceptions of distributive justice)
    the minimal formula ensuring that the fate of human beings is determined by their decisions and not by unavoidable social circumstances

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