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From a social issue to policy: social work’s advocacy for the rights of donor conceived people to genetic origins information in the United Kingdom
- Authors:
- WINCOTT Elizabeth, CRAWSHAW Marilyn
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 43(2/3), 2006, pp.53-72.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper outlines the 22-year campaign to enable people conceived through donor assisted reproduction techniques to gain the right to information about their origins, focusing on the role of the British Association of Social Workers and Progar, the BASW’s Project Group on Assisted Reproduction, which was founded in 1984. The authors argue that social work values and principles can prove key to identifying structural inequalities that are not necessarily based on socioeconomic disadvantage: their experience of adoption work, for example, enables them to recognise the corrosive effects of secrecy within families and, in the case of assisted conception, to challenge the prevailing legislative and professional culture in this area. The abolition of donor anonymity finally came into force in 2005, although many challenges still remain. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).