In last month's BioNews (issue567) Professor Eric Blyth and Wendy Kramer criticised 'My Daddy's Name is Donor: A New Study of Young Adults Conceived Through Sperm Donation'. This week Elizabeth Marquardt, a co-investigator, on the study responds. We would like to hear your views on this report and their ensuing disagreement.
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Other articles which you may wish to comment on are those by Baroness Ruth Deech and Dr Evan Harris about the future of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). This is a subject which BioNews will be returning to again next week when we will feature a piece by Alison Murdoch. What do you think of the different authors' views? What do you think should happen to the HFEA? Log in and let us know.One of the Progress Educational Trust's fundamental objectives is to stimulate debate and discussion. We hope that HAVE YOUR SAY will help you to be better informed as to what others think and will help us to better identify hot topics and plan future debates, as well as attract funding. So let your fingers do the talking and post a comment.
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