Afsané Sabouhi, edited by Manon Fossat 12:03 p.m., October 21, 2021

A vast awareness campaign starts this Thursday at the initiative of the Biomedicine Agency to inform the French about the donation of gametes. Because the Bioethics law has indeed made two major changes, namely the opening of assisted reproduction to couples of women and single women and the creation of a right of access to origins.

Next year the law will change.

Children resulting from a sperm or egg donation will be able to access the identity of the donor.

A situation that worries the French according to the Viavoice Institute.

Indeed, 25% of the population of age to donate their gametes affirms that this lifting of anonymity could make them renounce their gesture.

This is the reason why the Biomedicine Agency, which hopes to recruit new donors, is launching a vast information and awareness campaign on Thursday.

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"No disclosure" without express consent 

From September 1, 2022, in order to be able to donate your oocytes or sperm, you will have to accept that the children resulting from these donations can access your identity, if they come of age.

"The information that will be transmitted is on the one hand the identity and on the other hand, the family, professional situation, the general condition, the place of birth, but also the motivations to have given and the physical characteristics", details Claire Devienne, referring physician in medically assisted procreation at the Biomedicine Agency.

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"We want to reassure people who have so far made a donation without consenting to access to the origins. There will in no case be any disclosure of their identity if they have not expressly consented to it", she still assures. 

So to convince new donors, as to reassure old ones, the Biomedicine Agency is very clear.

It is a question of providing answers on the identity of the donor to help the child who would like it in his personal construction, but in no case to recognize a filiation.