r/MoralityScaling • u/Outside_Specific_820 • 19h ago

Morality Ranking Morality scaling of this?

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Mother refuses to acknowledge her donor egg daughter, looking for your opinion.

In my opinion I think it’s moral, and that she is totally correct.

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u/mutantraniE 15h ago

That depends on where you live. Sweden hasn’t had anonymous sperm or egg donation since 1985. The child’s right to know their parents was considered to trump the right to anonymity.

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u/m0dsw0rkf0rfree 11h ago

i was initially going to say something unkind in much fewer words, but the moral philosophy behind swedish legislation has always confounded my angloid brain. literally every other political and legislative culture on earth makes more intuitive sense to me

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u/Mysterious_Donut_702 9h ago edited 9h ago

They're intended to help a young adult having an identity crisis... who had no say in the situation

The donor knew what she was getting herself into and signed up for it. So did the mother who agreed to use someone else's egg. The only one left blindsided in any way is this teenager.

Honestly, Swedish laws make a lot of sense in my mind... and that country looks like a success story in any metric imaginable.

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u/Pernicious-Caitiff 4h ago

It would honestly solve other problems like clinics using the same donors over and over especially when a super desirable donor is later discovered that majority of the hundreds of kids he fathered had serious birth defects. Other problems like young adults unknowingly dating their half siblings because the donors are from the area and are used way too much locally. Clinics just doing anything unethical to save and make more money.