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Missing Identity: To Whom Do I Belong?

Mamoona Iram*, Saleema Khowaja**

*-** Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery, Karachi, Pakistan.

Periodicity:May - July'2019
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jnur.9.2.16350

Abstract

The trends of pregnancy by using third party sperms are being popular to deal with the challenges of infertility that raise different ethical questions. Keeping into consideration of ethical points, it is important to examine the psycho-social wellbeing and rights of the donor-conceived child. The aim of this study was to identify a scenario related to some ethical issue and analyze and comment on it. The scenario was analysed in light of ethics, social, legal and Muslim context. The analysis revealed that the sperm donor should ponder over the wellbeing of the unborn child before sperm donation and parents should respect the child's right before taking a decision. It is recommended that healthcare professionals should consider the entire dimensions of the patient's contexts before proposing such controversial treatment modalities.

Keywords

Anonymous Sperm Donation, Autonomy of Child.

How to Cite this Article?

Iram, M., and Khowaja, S. (2019). Missing Identity: To Whom Do I Belong?.i-manager's Journal on Nursing, 9(2), 50-53. https://doi.org/10.26634/jnur.9.2.16350

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