A Fertility Doctor Using His Own Sperm: Ethical and legal considerations

That is, the children are thinking that, if Cline had used anonymous sperm donors to inseminate their mothers, they would have been born anyway, and they would not have suffered emotional harm. In his view, the children are right to think that Cline harmed and wronged them (at least if their emotional distress is severe enough to constitute a harm), and this claim does not stem from a misunderstanding about identity. Cline violated the children’s rights if he brought them into the world in a seriously harmful condition, when he could have avoided this by using sperm from anonymous donors.

Source: www.thehastingscenter.org