USA: He designed his daughter with an anonymous donor, he wanted to contact him and he received a "devastating" sentence

Danielle Teuscher is a young American woman from Porland, Oregon, whose mother is Zoe, a 5-year-old girl who was conceived with the help of an anonymous donor. One of the rules of the contract that her daughter lives in the Cryobank Northwestern Sperm Bank with this donation was that the mother should not try to know who the donor is.

Peoro, this rule was broken when, along with other members of the family, Teuscher decided to conduct a DNA study herself and her child, basically to know the origin of the ancestors of Zoe, not his father, but their ancestors, and to be able to detect and prevent health problems.

The DNA badysis was done at the 23andme genetic diagnosis clinic and, therefore, unwanted by this study, Teuscher was able to know the identity of Zoe's paternal grandmother.

Wishing to know more about the family identity of her daughter's father, the woman wrote a message to Zoe's grandmother, recently identified: "I do not want to go beyond borders, I just want you to know that we are here and that we are open to contact us, if you want. "

The surprise response of the grandmother was concise: "Excuse me, I do not understand your message". After that, Teuscher stopped pursuing her request, but another place sent her a message leaving her frozen. The Northwest Cryobank sperm bank sent him a message telling him not to keep looking for the donor's contact or "looking for information about your identity" or that of your loved ones.

The clinic further badured that, to continue to insist on the search for information, it would be fined $ 20,000. And most important for the woman was that Northwest Cryobank told her in the message that she would keep the four ampoules of semen from the same donor that she had already bought. In this way, Teuscher could not have the material with which he planned to give more biological brothers to Zoe.

The voice of the woman

In statements to the signal
CBS News, the woman said that the news had "devastated". "I was shocked, I cried for several days, I was barely eating, I was almost ashamed, I thought I was doing something good for my daughter, but I was not happy. I ended up having the feeling of having done something terrible, as if I were a criminal, "he said in front of the cameras. the above-mentioned television signal.

Northwestern Cryobank officials told CBS that they did not prohibit DNA testing, but that "the problem arises when this badysis is used to contact the donor or his family". The aforementioned sperm bank added that the woman had agreed by contract not to initiate an identity search or to try to contact her.

Teuscher admits that she signed the contract – "I filled the lockers", she acknowledged – but that her daughter does not know it, that she is "a human being who breathe, who lives and who has not signed any contract ".

The case raises a conflict between the right to know their biological parents of children conceived through a sperm donation and the right of donors to preserve their anonymity.

Northwest Cryobank badured that it would reimburse Teuscher the money that she would have paid for the four bulbs, but that she would not return the samples. The woman, meanwhile, said that she was already resigned to the fact that, if it was not with this donor, the promise of having more children was over for her.

"Literally, they stayed with my kids, with my future babies," Teuscher said bitterly.