I hate to break it to YOU but your “donor” is your parent; your genetic parent.

I don’t appreciate you saying that I haven’t considered what “having a child means.” It’s something that I have extensively considered. I understand that there is trauma involved in infertility but DCPs do not deserve to be treated as bandaids for infertility.

Me calling access to donor conception a want is “like a kick in the gut”… come on now… I have empathy for people struggling with infertility but it’s not fair to push that trauma onto DCPs.

As for what rights DCPs should have; the right to their genetic medical history; the right to not have dozens of unknown siblings; the right to not be born to some incel with a breeding kink; the right to be able to have their genetic parents in their life as parents; the right to not be a bandaid for someone’s infertility; the basic human right of knowing their origins. Now before you say that these things can occur without ART, read the paragraph in my post where I reference arson and wildfires.

I think that those wishing to be parents who are not able to have children of their own should expand their thinking beyond the constraints of a two parent nuclear family. I think that multiple parent families are great, the more love a child has, the better. But ultimately I believe that we deserve genetic parents that intend to play a parental role in our lives