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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: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:15PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday August 28 2019, @04:15PM (#886864) Journal

    You said:

    Anybody without a genetic disease (or carrier) is just fine.

    Any set of designer genetic enhancements is also fine as long as it doesn't raise a disease concern.

    Your ideas of banning "sperm shopping" or "sperm racial discrimination" are obviously non-starters, but I bet many parents will also seek designer baby services with no qualms whatsoever. Label it eugenics if you want, but nobody is getting sterilized. And it's your (her) body, your choice. Except the choice will involve eXtreme customization potential like never before.

    Parents will get a kid with desired appearance traits, or more likely a package of appearance, height, intelligence, and athleticism enhancements. No particular male or female will be necessary, and an artificial womb could be used. If you ban it, people will just go to China, Russia, or whoever will take their money.

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