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Medical interests alone are not sufficient grounds for prohibiting donor anonymity.

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The UK Nuffield Council on Bioethics, in a report recommending against donor anonymity, acknowledged that medical interests by themselves do not justify a prohibition.
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1.Medical interests, when aggregated across populations, can constitute compelling public health grounds sufficient for legal prohibition.
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2.Joel Feinberg's harm principle permits liberty restrictions when cumulative harms to identifiable third parties (donors' offspring) reach a threshold of serious preventable injury.
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3.Genetic diseases with incomplete penetrance require multigenerational tracking, making anonymity a systemic obstacle to preventive medicine at a population level.
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1.Norman Daniels' just health care framework treats access to one's genetic history as a primary good necessary for fair equality of opportunity.
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2.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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However, those who defend the permissibility of donor anonymity argue that the value of medical history is overstated, and will become less important as we move towards personalized medicine (Melo-Martín 2014). In fact, in a report recommending against permitting donor anonymity, the UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics stated that medical interests alone were not sufficient grounds for prohibiting donor anonymity (Nuffield Council on Bioethics 2013).

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