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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 28 2019, @03:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the technically-it-was-donated dept.

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Their Mothers Chose Donor Sperm. The Doctors Used Their Own.

Scores of people born through artificial insemination have learned from DNA tests that their biological fathers were the doctors who performed the procedure.

Growing up in Nacogdoches, Tex., Eve Wiley learned at age 16 that she had been conceived through artificial insemination with donor sperm.

Her mother, Margo Williams, now 65, had sought help from Dr. Kim McMorries, telling him that her husband was infertile. She asked the doctor to locate a sperm donor. He told Mrs. Williams that he had found one through a sperm bank in California.

Mrs. Williams gave birth to a daughter, Eve. Now 32, Ms. Wiley is a stay-at-home mother in Dallas. In 2017 and 2018, like tens of millions of Americans, she took consumer DNA tests.

The results? Her biological father was not a sperm donor in California, as she had been told — Dr. McMorries was. The news left Ms. Wiley reeling.

"You build your whole life on your genetic identity, and that's the foundation," Ms. Wiley said. "But when those bottom bricks have been removed or altered, it can be devastating."

Through his attorney and the staff at his office, Dr. McMorries declined to comment.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:06PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:06PM (#886858)

    When couples with Fertility problems go the sperm donor route they are saying we’ll take *anything*
    It’s not like he swapped his sperm for the Rock’s spunk

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:12PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:12PM (#886862)

    People are driven to choose whom they mate with.
    Even if the only choice they have is through a stud book, they will exercise it.
    Nobody will agree to getting the wife blind drunk, dropping her off at a bar, and saying, I hope you get lucky tonight!

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:23PM (3 children)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:23PM (#886866) Journal

      Well, some definitely would agree to do that, or more likely get a clean buddy to intervene.

      Also, this instance demonstrates that the choice hardly mattered. It took 32 years to figure it out, although the technology had to catch up. But the child didn't deviate significantly from the appearance of the assumed donor or have any unexpected genetic diseases.

      So what's the next step, civil action? Guess I'll have to read TFA.

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      • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:54PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:54PM (#886878)

        The couple got lucky with the doctor's DNA.
        Sure, no material harm resulted.
        BUT... the couple was defrauded by the doctor.
        They paid for sperm from donor X and instead sperm from the doctor was deliberately substituted.

        • (Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday August 28 2019, @05:31PM (1 child)

          by legont (4179) on Wednesday August 28 2019, @05:31PM (#886897)

          Perhaps the only "defrauded" party is the husband and the main perpetrator is the wife.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @06:26PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 28 2019, @06:26PM (#886921)

            Keep pushing that joke.
            It gets FUNNIER every time you tell it!

  • (Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Wednesday August 28 2019, @05:55PM

    by Rupert Pupnick (7277) on Wednesday August 28 2019, @05:55PM (#886907) Journal

    And they're paying a lot of money for the "privilege" (?) of avoiding sex...

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 28 2019, @07:03PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 28 2019, @07:03PM (#886933)

    Especially in this case. "Eh I don't care, just find somebody for me."

    If she had gone and picked a donor *herself* this wouldn't have happened, presumably.

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