Jurisprudential Investigation on the Confidentiality of Embryo Donation

Infertility has been the main problem of infertile couples in history. However, infertility is solved with modern methods’ in recent decades. Embryo donation is one of the methods to infertile couples. In this method, sperm and oocyte of legal and religious couples are inoculated in the lab and the fetus is given to other legal and religious couples. However, people and doctors have doubts to agree or disagree with the views of contemporary jurisprudents. Then, the legislature passed the law of donating embryos to infertile couples in 2003. Although at the time, this law was very useful. However, there are shortcomings because of the brief writing of the law. The child's confidentiality to the fetus has not been determined. In this paper, the rights of Shia jurisprudence books and their adaptation to the opinions of the jurisprudents articles regarding the confidentiality of the embryo donation are discussed. Concluding different opinions from medical ethics and jurisprudential comments and laws, confidentiality of the mother’s womb to the child was proved. All provisions of the foster mother also runs. The confidentiality of the father will also be accepted according to several conditions.