Walking a Tightrope: Responding to Roth, Brandt, Russell, and Skow

A) Accounts for the importance of genetic knowledge to many donor-conceived people (and many people generally), but B) Does not attribute too much significance to genetic knowledge, and C) Recognizes societal forces that shape, not always in salutary ways, people’s interest in genetic knowledge, but D) Does not thereby undermine the significance of people’s interest in having genetic knowledge, while also E) Putting gamete donors on the hook for being available to their genetic offspring, but without F) Attributing parental responsibility to gamete donors.