A choose at The Hague District Court ordered the halt in an injunction introduced by the mom of a kid conceived with the donor’s sperm and a basis representing different mother and father.
The mom, recognized by the muse solely as Eva, welcomed the court docket’s determination.
“I hope that this ruling leads to a ban on mass donation and spreads like an oil slick to other countries. We must stand hand in hand around our children and protect them against this injustice,” she stated in an announcement.
The court docket famous that below Dutch tips, sperm donors are allowed to provide a most of 25 youngsters with 12 moms and that the donor lied to potential mother and father about his donation historical past.
The donor, recognized as Jonathan M. below Dutch privateness tips, offered sperm to a number of Dutch fertility clinics and to a clinic in Denmark in addition to to many different folks he linked with by way of commercials and on-line boards, the court docket stated in its written judgment.
The donor’s lawyer stated in a court docket listening to that he needed to assist mother and father who would in any other case be unable to conceive.
The choose who heard the civil case stated that the donor “deliberately lied about this in order to persuade the parents to take him as a donor,” the court docket stated in an announcement.
“All these parents are now confronted with the fact that the children in their family are part of a huge kinship network, with hundreds of half-siblings, which they did not choose,” the court docket stated, including that this “has or could possibly have negative psychosocial consequences for the children. It is therefore in their interest that this kinship network is not extended any further.”
The court docket stated in an announcement that the case was about “conflicting fundamental rights.
On the one hand, the right to respect for the privacy of the parents and the donor children … and on the other hand, the same right of the donor.”
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The court docket dominated that “the interests of the donor children and their parents outweigh the interest of the donor in continuing to donate sperm to new prospective parents.”
The court docket ordered him instantly to halt all donations and stated he should pay 100,000 euros ($166,518AUD) per case if he breaches the ban.
Lawyer Mark de Hek referred to as the ruling “a clear signal and, as far as I am concerned, a final warning to other mass donors.”
Source: www.9news.com.au
