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Research
Legal age limits on accessing donor information: experiences of donor-conceived people, parents, sperm donors and counsellors – Reproductive BioMedicine Online (rbmojournal.com)
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Useful Links
Looking for further information? Here’s some other places to have a look DCUK Facebook page (not the private group) – https://www.facebook.com/donorconceiveduk DCUK is also on X and Instagram as @DCUK_official Donor Conception Network – https://www.dcnetwork.org/ Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust – https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/our-services/donor-conceived-register-dcr/ The DNA Detectives – https://www.facebook.com/groups/DNADetectives/ Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority – https://www.hfea.gov.uk/ Donor Sibling Link – https://www.hfea.gov.uk/donation/donor-conceived-people-and-their-parents/donor-sibling-link-dsl/ Donor…
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Glossary
AID Artificial Insemination via Donor Prior to the 1990’s donor conception was widely known as AID Bioessentialist The philosophy that biology plays a larger role in determining human psychology or development than social, economic, or environmental factors. BIPOC BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour. BMA British Medical Association The British…
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DNA Testing
If you are thinking about proceeding with DNA testing, there are two main routes to be considered; through the DCR database or through commercial DNA testing companies. They use different testing techniques so the results from one route may not always tally with the other. Through the DCR database This is a database consisting solely of…
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Resources
Documentaries and short films Born from The Same Strange on ITVX My Sperm Donor and Me on BBC Offspring by Barry Stevens (A UK donor conceived adult, now living in the US) DNA testing, sperm donor anonymity and me by Natasha Fox 4 Men 175 Babies: The UK’s Super Sperm Donors Focusses on current donors Donor Unknown Focusses on…
