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49 women impregnated unknowingly

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Smotheroffive · 13/04/2019 01:08

By, now deceased, fertility practitioner.

Seems men need chaperoning in the lab too! From using their own semen...

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SinkGirl · 22/04/2019 07:34

knit how do you think your DIL in would feel if her choice of anonymous donor were ignored, replaced with the sperm of the doctor doing the insemination? If you have close family experience of this I’m stunned you’re so dismissive.

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Smotheroffive · 22/04/2019 00:36

They delved into their genetic past to find themselves all linked to all these other half-siblings they'd known nothing about Hmm

Messed with their heads majorly

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Smotheroffive · 22/04/2019 00:35

who thought their partners were the father

Or the DC who grew up not realising their df wasn't actually biologically their df at all Confused. It's shit horrific

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GirlRaisedInTheSouth · 21/04/2019 22:35

I think there was a Taggart where it turned out a doctor in a fertility clinic had fathered 20 children or something.

I saw that Taggart. At the time, I thought it was ridiculously far-fetched. But it seems it wasn’t.

What an awful story. Feel bad especially for those who thought their partners were the father Sad.

Erythronium · 21/04/2019 22:35

There needs to be a law against forced impregnation or impregnation under false pretenses. At the moment there's nothing. If a woman gets pregnant from rape, or in this sort of way, the rapist gets away with it.

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Smotheroffive · 21/04/2019 22:30

In that case he did hand in his licence in 09.

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Smotheroffive · 21/04/2019 22:29

365 days suspended sentence for obstructing the law, and fraud, and denials.

So basically nada. That was in the US though. Any donor should have limited to 3 donations, it said,but there are at least 36, some if which where the family were using the fathers sperm, or so they thought. Angry

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Knitclubchatter · 13/04/2019 17:04

I’ve read cases like this several times over the years.
Two from 2018 alone
www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4606814
Then another in the US news story dated August 2018.

BixBeiderbecke · 13/04/2019 16:33

I think there was a Taggart where it turned out a doctor in a fertility clinic had fathered 20 children or something. Will have a look.

Antibles · 13/04/2019 16:19

This is utterly atrocious conduct by a doctor. If he's been alive and practising he'd have been struck off.

redexpat · 13/04/2019 16:19

And yes its a horrible thing to do, totally unethical.

redexpat · 13/04/2019 16:18

Yes its the plot of Sisters on netflix, which is excellent btw.

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Smotheroffive · 13/04/2019 15:42

Not sure what your dil situation is relative to?

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Smotheroffive · 13/04/2019 15:39

It's not the 'wrong sperm'!!

It's assuming himself as the bio father. A bio father that lacks any ethics or.morality. bull-dozing through the womens boundaries as she carries her baby, not knowing hes the father!

He's impregnated these women's ova; these poor DC having been cheated this way and all having the same father!

They have waited years to find out

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Knitclubchatter · 13/04/2019 15:31

It’s actually criminal and horrible that the wrong sperm (which may not meet strict health criteria) was used.
But I wouldn’t start a thread calling it unknowingly impregnated....
My Dil used donor sperm, the donor has been “retired” so several successful pregnancies (not sure the numbers in North America) 10 seems very low. She still has 3 more vials stored so siblings could be full siblings. Which would, even if she’s the only woman doing this increase the number of children conceived by his donor sperm.

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Smotheroffive · 13/04/2019 14:23

Gosh, there's some mighty minimising here!

I'm really shocked. It is illegal...

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MarciaDidia · 13/04/2019 08:59

Knitclub, that's not how consent works. You consent to the use of an anonymous donor (assuming you don't have a specific donor like a partner). There is a screening process for donors and laws around what information you/they receive. The ethics have been thought through to try to make the process work for everyone. Having the doctor whom you have trusted to perform the treatment drive a coach and horses through these procedures by treating you as his own personal rented ova/uterus is an appalling betrayal. You can't just shrug it off.

TheBullshitGoesOn · 13/04/2019 08:57

In the UK donors are limited to 10 families (could be multiple children in a family). And the primary UK centre is responsible for making sure that limit isn't breached if they make samples available to other centres. But I don't know whether there is any international coordination if a donor moves country and donates without declaring their history.

Knitclubchatter · 13/04/2019 05:39

okay but your thread title...since they were going for IVF treatment they are hoping to get pregnant so not really impregnated unknowingly...maybe unknowingly by his sperm but they were there to get sperm.
IVF sperm donors can donate a lot of sperm, i hope someone will come on with the numbers but one fellow can easily have 50+ offspring as donations are on both national and international databases.

FannyCann · 13/04/2019 04:36

There were films/shows about him including "The sperminator" not sure if they were Netflix or he might have been the inspiration.

It's appalling.

FannyCann · 13/04/2019 04:33

It's happened before sadly. This guy seems to have gone out back to produce a fresh supply when performing artificial insemination which iirc some of the women compared to rape.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Jacobson

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Smotheroffive · 13/04/2019 02:56

What show? sorry,you've lost me. I don't see where I've.made reference to a programme.

This is a man whose impregnated 49 women illegally.

It's not something I've ever heard of before!

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HoppingPavlova · 13/04/2019 02:40

There have been several cases over the years, so while not exactly common it’s not unheard of.

Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom · 13/04/2019 02:21

The makers of the program I'm not suggesting the doctor watched a tv show and thought brilliant I'm going to try that.

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