• Report.Genes with a face: they promote that the donation of ovules and semen cease to be anonymous In the face of those who defend privacy, the Bioethics Committee will ask the Government to end the anonymity of donors so that the descendants can meet their biological parents

Manuel Romero is 26 years old but four years ago he is another. He came into the world through artificial and anonymous insemination, although he did not know that until March 16, 2016. That day, at lunchtime, his legal father confessed that he was not his biological father .

And then, with 22 years, Manuel was born again.

Since that afternoon, this gracious and empathetic Grenadian seeks the origin of his blood; an escalation, impossible, by the tree of its genes.

Manuel wants to know who gave him his life and he told it in a report published in EL MUNDO on October 22. «I want to fill a void and lift a slab that weighs me since I knew who I am not. It's about my origin; if I deny it, I deny my identity and my reality ».

When Manuel received us in his homeland, the possibility of Spain modifying its legislation to end the anonymity of gamete donation was hardly a debate between science, morals and even the economy of a leading country in private processes of assisted reproduction . Today the future donation with DNI is already a 54-page document signed unanimously by the Bioethics Committee, a non-binding but advisory body of the Government.

And that means that historic change could be closer than ever ...

What have you thought to know that an organism like the Bioethics Committee is committed to the right of the born to know his identity? I thought it was very good. But I would like it to be retroactive, because the right to that identity also belongs to those who have already been born. But I'm glad for those who will be born in the future. Do you understand that whoever has already donated has done it precisely because his offspring will never know that he did? Yes, of course. I understand that, in my case, the person who once donated his sperm did so under that premise. I understand it so much that if the donation had not been anonymous, perhaps I myself would not be here and would not exist. But I think there are more ways. It's not about establishing a relationship, if the parties don't want to, of course. I mean that the born person has at least one chance, that he can know who donated his life. I would use a letter, a name. I would use to know that this person admitted that it was him, that he is. And if, afterwards, I didn't want any kind of relationship with me, I would assume it perfectly. Why do you look for its origin? Because I have always felt a void. I've spent my life searching, it's as if I feel that I have a hidden part. I have always wondered many things and now there is one that I cannot answer. And how would it help you to know what you don't know? It would give me peace of mind and freedom. For example, I want to know if I have brothers ... It's a whole. I think knowing it would help me be freer. The free man is the one who knows the truth. People who are in their same circumstances do not usually make it public, but you are not a unique case of a son who wants to know the identity of his natural father or mother ... Yes, we are many who seek our origin, our truth . Many people want to know about hereditary diseases, and many others for a pure identity issue. The key is that the focus is now on the right to identity. What was known yesterday is a report that does not bind the Government. And, for the moment, we don't know what the Executive thinks. What are your chances that Spain ends up raising anonymity? Spain cannot contradict most of the world. There are already more countries that do not contemplate anonymity than the opposite. All those who have legislated in this regard have been based on the child's right to know their identity. If maintaining anonymity is harmful to children, how will Spain go against the interest of the child?

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