Paris (AFP)

One hundred people conceived by PMA with a donation of gametes and 150 personalities ask the end of the anonymity of the sperm donors, in a tribune published Tuesday.

"We ask that now access to personal origins be guaranteed to all children conceived by donation," write the signatories of this text published by Le Monde, before the revision of the bioethics law expected in the coming months.

"By their majority, if they wish, they must be able to know the identity of their donor," they continue.

This forum was initiated by the associations PMAnonyme, which brings together people born by DMA with donor, and ADFH (Association of homoparental families).

Among the signatories are the former ministers Roselyne Bachelot and Dominique Bertinotti, the writer Annie Ernaux, the psychiatrist Serge Hefez, the historian Pierre Rosanvallon or the deputy Jean-Louis Touraine, rapporteur of the parliamentary mission in charge of preparing the debate on the next revision of the law.

For donations that have already taken place, the signatories are asking for "the establishment of a voluntary register allowing former donors who wish to transmit information".

Anonymity is one of the pillars of sperm donation in France, but it is weakened by the development of DNA tests on the internet. Although illegal in France, they have already allowed about fifteen people born thanks to a donation to find their donor, according to PMAnonyme.

The first to succeed was a 36-year-old man, Arthur Kermalvezen, who told his story in a book published in April ("The Son", The Iconoclast) and founded the Origins association.

Several countries have already renounced the anonymity of sperm donation, including the United Kingdom, Germany or the Scandinavian countries.

According to an Ifop survey commissioned by the ADFH in parallel with the forum, 75% of French people are in favor of children from a sperm or oocyte donation "can now access the identity of the donor" (survey by a representative sample of 2,000 people, using the quota method and via an online questionnaire).

The bioethics bill, the most sensitive part of which is the opening of the PMA to lesbian couples and single women, must be presented to the Council of Ministers in July, said Prime Minister Philippe Philippe in late April.

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