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Gregg Wiatt was stunned. On his 28th birthday-six months before he death of the

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Gregg Wiatt was stunned. On his 28th birthday-six months before he death of the man he had thought was his natural father-his mother told him the truth. She told him he was the offspring of a men donor. Long before, though, Wiatt had felt somehow different. se was like there was always this secret I could never put my fin- It gers on,' says the 37-year-old Denver sales and marketing executive. When I finally learned the truth, it felt like I was living between Disneyland and the Twilight Zone.' Bill Cordray, 47, also felt odd. It was something that kept edging into my consciousness,' says the Salt Lake City architect. He and his dad were 'so different. My inter- ests were artistic-music, building, creative. So different from every- one else. I felt like a stranger in my family.' Wiatt and Cordray are among tens of thousands of people literally born out of the high-tech merger of egg and sperm. And, like most of the others, they're still in the dark-because records are confidential" ("When Dad's a Sperm Donor," 1993). Develop arguments on both sides of the question: Should sperm donor records be confidential?

Explanation / Answer

Let's talk about why records should not be confidential.

Reasons why it should be confidential