{"id":21049,"date":"2012-03-03T03:36:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T03:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21049"},"modified":"2012-03-03T03:36:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T03:36:24","slug":"racial-classification-regarding-semen-donor-selection-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21049","title":{"rendered":"Racial Classification Regarding Semen Donor Selection in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1471-8847.2007.00192.x\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Classification Regarding Semen Donor Selection in Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1471-8847\" target=\"_blank\">Developing World Bioethics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/dewb.2007.7.issue-2\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 7, Issue 2<\/a> (August 2007)<br \/>\npages 104\u2013111<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1471-8847.2007.00192.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1471-8847.2007.00192.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/antropologia.ning.com\/profile\/RoselyGomesCosta\" target=\"_blank\">Rosely Gomes Costa<\/a><\/strong>, P\u00f3s-doutorado em Ci\u00eancias Sociais pela<br \/>\n<em>Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Aut\u00f4noma de Barcelona (Espanha)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brazil has not yet approved legislation on assisted reproduction. For this reason, clinics, hospitals and semen banks active in the area follow Resolution 1358\/92 of the Conselho Federal de Medicina, dated 30 September 1992. In respect to semen donation, the object of this article, the Resolution sets out that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamete\" target=\"_blank\">gamete<\/a> donation shall be anonymous, that is, that the donor and recipients (and the children who might subsequently be born) shall not be informed of each other&#8217;s identity. Thus, since recipients are unaware of the donor&#8217;s identity, semen banks and the medical teams involved in assisted reproduction become the intermediaries in the process. The objective of this article is to show that, in practice, this represents disrespect for the ethical principles of autonomy, privacy and equality. <strong>The article also stresses that the problem is compounded by the racial question. In a country like Brazil, where racial classification is so flexible and goes side by side with racist attitudes, the intermediary role played by semen banks and medical teams is conditioned by their own criteria of racial classification, which are not always the same as those of donors and semen recipients.<\/strong> The data presented in this paper were taken from two semen banks located in the city of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%A3o_Paulo\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a> (Brazil). At the time of my research, they were the only semen banks in the state of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_(state)\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a> and supplied semen to the capital (S\u00e3o Paulo city), the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, and to cities in other Brazilian states where semen banks were not available.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1471-8847.2007.00192.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial Classification Regarding Semen Donor Selection in Brazil Developing World Bioethics Volume 7, Issue 2 (August 2007) pages 104\u2013111 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1471-8847.2007.00192.x Rosely Gomes Costa, P\u00f3s-doutorado em Ci\u00eancias Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Aut\u00f4noma de Barcelona (Espanha) Brazil has not yet approved legislation on assisted reproduction. For this reason, clinics, hospitals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,2039,8,26],"tags":[9855,8646,9201],"class_list":["post-21049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-developing-world-bioethics","tag-rosely-gomes-costa","tag-sao-paulo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}