The law guaranteed lifelong anonymity needs to change, says Dorothy Byrne, president of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
When I got pregnant, the law guaranteed lifelong anonymity. Now, with DNA testing on the rise, that law needs to changePhotograph: Nadezhda1906/Getty Images/iStockphotoPhotograph: Nadezhda1906/Getty Images/iStockphotout of 68 million people in the UK, there are just 29,725 individuals who have no legal right to know their parentage. My child is one of them. It’s clearly wrong, and I am to blame. Twenty-seven years ago I decided to have a baby on my own.
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