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Do you have the right to be Anonymous?
Are there circumstances where you would give up that right?
Or, is it a privilege?
"Before co-founding the DNA Doe Project with Fitzpatrick in 2017, Press worked on finding parentage in adoption cases. (Fitzpatrick left in June to spend more time on IdentiFinders.) Both in adoption and in Jane and John Doe searches, the ethical questions are the same, says Press, including "whose rights trumps whose." In the case of adoption, the primary question is whether an adoptee's right to know their history trumps a birth parent's right to privacy. Press believes it does. Although she finds it "sad" that sperm donors and birth parents may have been promised that they would never be named, she says she believes "anonymity is not a right."
Longer read:
Are there circumstances where you would give up that right?
Or, is it a privilege?
"Before co-founding the DNA Doe Project with Fitzpatrick in 2017, Press worked on finding parentage in adoption cases. (Fitzpatrick left in June to spend more time on IdentiFinders.) Both in adoption and in Jane and John Doe searches, the ethical questions are the same, says Press, including "whose rights trumps whose." In the case of adoption, the primary question is whether an adoptee's right to know their history trumps a birth parent's right to privacy. Press believes it does. Although she finds it "sad" that sperm donors and birth parents may have been promised that they would never be named, she says she believes "anonymity is not a right."
Longer read:
The man without a name
Robert Ivan Nichols simply disappeared from his average, 1960s Midwestern life — until, using DNA, sleuths uncovered the truth. But were they digging where they shouldn’t have been?
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