 Offspring’s ability to access adoption records have oscillated quite substantially over the past century and a half, even within the same jurisdiction (Samuels 2000). More recently, regulatory structures have shifted in favour of providing adoptees with a legal right to access identifying information about their progenitors (Besson 2007, Hildebrand 1999). In such jurisdictions, some have argued that, because gamete donation is sufficiently similar to adoption, regulatory consistency demands that anonymous gamete donation be prohibited as well (Pratten v. British Columbia (Attorney General) 2012 BCCA 480; Chisholm 2012; Cahn 2009c – see Other Internet Resources). While this parity argument only goes so far in the absence of philosophical justification for prohibiting anonymous adoption (mere consistency could conversely be achieved by permitting anonymous adoption) it does give pause to examine the relevant similarities between the two practices.