What are the implications of qualifying access to origins a fundamental right, in light of gender, LGBT rights?
Of course, we need first to determine how 'right' is defined in this case. The direction of the right is also important. If it is a right to know one's biological origins, what are the rights of those originators/progenitors to privacy?
An excellent question and I look forward to the debate!
Indeed an interesting question. I would consider it a basis human right to have access to that knowledge (of who are one's biological parents). However,if for instance, a lesbian woman has artificial insemination, the full details (of the sperm donor) are - to my knowledge - often not revealed (in South Africa, at least). I do not regard gender and LGBT rights in any way at stake if adoption or a.i. must guarantee that the adoptee or 'own' child has access - at some point of her life - to knowing who her biological parents are.
Obviously, it can occasionally be important to know whether a particular person happens to be your half-sibling.
That leads to the question of how feasible it might be to try and enforce a law or decree insisting that such information should always be available; i.e., making it a crime to refuse to provide full details of a child's parentage. In the face of such a legal requirement, there will sometimes be deliberate evasion, and even lying. Indeed, there will also be instances when a woman could state quite truthfully that "she does not know"!
Napoleon swung the other way, forbidding all attempts to challenge and investigate paternity - (even without the advanced biochemical resources and techniques which we enjoy today).
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