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    It is not the case that Individuals have a right to know facts about their biological history

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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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    • Individuals require genuine facts about their biological history in order to develop a proper personal identity
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