Colorado becomes first state to ban anonymous sperm and egg donations

The big picture: The law requires gamete banks that provide sperm and egg collection and matching to maintain up-to-date medical records and contact information for all donors.

• It also prohibits donations from donors who refuse to agree to identity disclosures and limits the number of families that can use any given donor.
• The law also raises the minimum age to donate to 21, per the Post.
• The law's passage comes just weeks after a Grand Junction jury awarded $9 million to families who had sued a fertility doctor for using his own sperm to impregnate patients, per the Post.

What they're saying: The U.S. Donor Conceived Council heralded the decision, tweeting that "history was made" on Tuesday.

• “Anonymity is a promise that cannot be kept due to the popularity of at-home DNA testing,” State Senate President Stephen Fenberg said in a statement, per the Post.
• “This bill recognizes this reality and affirms that while shared DNA does not always make a family, the identity of the donor is important to the health and identity of many donor-conceived persons," he added.