What is an open donor contrary to an anonymous donor?
When an applicant is accepted as donor, he may choose to be an anonymous donor or an open identity (ID) donor. When children born from the sperm of open donors turn 18, they may apply to the European Sperm Bank to obtain contact with their donor. The contact can not be obtained by anyone but the child and never before the child reaches the age of 18, and only upon the child’s request. For anonymous donors, the donor cannot be contacted by the recipient or the child. Furthermore both anonymous and open ID donors are not allowed to receive information about the identity of the recipient or the child at any time. An anonymous or open ID donor has no paternal rights to a child born as a result of treatment of a woman using his sperm. Using sperm from open donors is attractive to some parents who wish to provide a means for their children conceived through insemination to learn more about their biological fathers, should they wish to at some point in the future. However, the donor material
