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Most western nations have single-digit limits on the number of births that can be from the same donor. Your clinic limits each donor to 25 families in the USA and 15 internationally, for a likely 40+ offspring per donor, before you account for siblings. You also rely on recipients to self-report the births, which means the clinic is likely unaware of many births. Do you think it is ethical to allow a so many people to be born to the same donor? Why do you run your program so differently from the established norms of most western countries and donor-conceived advocates?

In an anonymous world that makes sense, but with modern DNA kits anonymity is over. From a human angle, where a donor can assume that their progeny will find them or a family member regardless of clinic’s policy on contact or local population density, do you think it’s a good idea to allow 40+ people to be created by the same donor?

I don’t have an issue with it in a macro sense. On a human level, imagine 40 different people all wanted to contact you to get to know their donor, or like, their donors family, or their half siblings. It strikes me as an unmanageable issue, interpersonally, that leads to a lot of hurt feelings. I don’t think that would be the case at lower numbers, because it seems conceivable to manage say…8 of these relationships or something. It’s important to remember that the people born this way did not ask for it. People never get to choose how they are born, but you should ask yourself what you think they are owed from the donor, and what that donor could reasonable be able to give.