Who will the baby look like?
The subject is sensitive in assisted reproduction carried out with third-party donors, confusing the maps of genetic similarities between the child and his parents.
Today, assisted reproduction doctors are trying to match the morphological characteristics of the sperm donor with those of the future father of the child.
In other words, if the latter is white, tall, brown with light eyes, the Cecos (Centers for the Study and Conservation of Eggs and Sperm) can search their file for a donor of a similar phenotype.
This practice, called “pairing”, is not written into the law but appears in the guide to good practices of the Biomedicine Agency.
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But what is this old principle of plausibility worth with the biological reality in filiation, at the time of the opening of assisted reproduction to couples of women and to single women?
For female couples, will the pairing have to be done with the “second mother”?
And how to do for
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