{
  "code": "US-OR",
  "name": "Oregon",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-07",
  "confidence": "high",
  "black_letter": "ORS 109.239: assisted reproduction means a method of causing pregnancy other than sexual intercourse (including artificial insemination). If the donor of gametes is not the mother\u2019s spouse, the donor has no right/obligation/interest regarding the child and vice versa. No licensed-physician intermediary is required in \u00a7 109.239 itself. NI is outside the definition.",
  "ai_informal": "statute_protects",
  "ni": "not_recognized",
  "physician_or_clinic_for_safe_harbor": "no",
  "agreement_effect": "evidence_only",
  "key_citations": [
    {
      "label": "ORS 109.239",
      "url": "https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/109.239",
      "quote": "If the donor of gametes used in assisted reproduction is not the mother\u2019s spouse: (a) The donor shall have no right, obligation or interest with respect to any child conceived as a result of the assisted reproduction; and (b) Any child conceived as a result of the assisted reproduction shall have no right, obligation or interest with respect to the donor."
    },
    {
      "label": "McIntyre v. Crouch, 98 Or. App. 462, 780 P.2d 239 (1989)",
      "url": "https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/109.239",
      "quote": "We hold that ORS 109.239, as applied to petitioner, will violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if he can establish that he and respondent agreed that he should have the rights and responsibilities of fatherhood and in reliance thereon he donated his semen."
    },
    {
      "label": "ORS ch. 109",
      "url": "https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_chapter_109"
    }
  ],
  "emerging_law_note": "McIntyre (1989) is intermediate appellate known-donor AI authority under an older statutory framing; always re-read current ORS 109.239. Definitions of \u201cdonor\u201d and \u201cassisted reproduction\u201d control.",
  "page": "/Pages/US/OR/or.html",
  "region_group": "US",
  "status_badges": {
    "AI-Single": "Statute",
    "AI-Married": "Statute",
    "NI": "Banned",
    "Contract": "Unknown"
  }
}