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Donor Conception Disclosure: Directive or Non-Directive Counselling?

Inez Raes¹, An Ravelingien², Guido Pennings²

¹Bioethics Institute Ghent (BIG), Department of Philosophy and Moral Science, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, B-9000, Gent, Belgium. inez.raes@gmail.com.

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Health professionals debate directive versus non-directive counseling for donor insemination disclosure. Ethical analysis indicates autonomy should prevail, meaning directive counseling is currently not justifiable.

Keywords:

Counselling Disclosure Donor conception Ethics Secrecy

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Reproductive Medicine
Bioethics
Psychology

Background:

Couples undergoing donor insemination require counseling on disclosure.
A debate exists regarding directive versus non-directive counseling approaches.
Ethical principles of autonomy and beneficence are central to this debate.

Purpose of the Study:

To ethically evaluate directive and non-directive counseling approaches for donor conception disclosure.
To determine which counseling approach is justifiable based on ethical principles.

Main Methods:

Ethical analysis balancing patient autonomy and beneficence.
Examination of conditions required to override one ethical principle in favor of another.
Argument analysis for the beneficence principle and a directive approach.

Main Results:

A directive counseling approach prioritizes beneficence.
Overriding autonomy requires specific conditions, which are not met in this context.
The principle of autonomy should not be overridden by beneficence.

Conclusions:

A directive counseling approach for donor conception disclosure is not ethically justifiable at this time.
The principle of autonomy supports a non-directive counseling approach.
Further ethical consideration is needed for counseling in donor insemination cases.