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    Individuals have a right to know facts about their biolog... — Carmelics
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    Individuals have a right to know facts about their biological history

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    • Individuals require genuine facts about their biological history in order to develop a proper personal identity
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    • 1.Donor anonymity protections reflect a legally recognized privacy interest grounded in bodily autonomy and reproductive liberty (Warren, Thomson).
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    • 2.When two parties hold competing liberty interests over the same information, the party who generated that information through bodily risk holds the stronger prima facie claim.
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    • 3.Therefore, the donor's privacy right presumptively defeats any general right of the offspring to access identifying biological information.
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    • 1.Personal identity is constituted by psychological continuity, narrative self-understanding, and social relationships, not biological facts (Locke, Parfit, MacIntyre).
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    • 2.If biological facts are not constitutively necessary for personal identity, then no identity-based right to access them follows.
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    One strategy is to tie the right to know to the right to an identity. Here the argument is that individuals require genuine facts about their biological history in order to develop a proper personal identity (Ravitsky 2010). However, one response is that while children have a right to an identity, they do not have a right to a particular kind of identity, such as one based primarily on historical biological ties (Allen 1996). Another route is to argue that children have a right to be respected,
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