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

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: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Wednesday August 28 2019, @05:13PM (2 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 28 2019, @05:13PM (#886889) Journal

    I say we should set goals for X percent of all adopters to be gay couples so we can further normalization of homosexuality.

    What if there aren't sufficient gay couples wishing to adopt? Do the children end up in limbo until we can find some? Forcing a specific number of adopters of any sexual makeup is wrong. What we should do is ensure that homosexual couples are entitled and able to adopt children under exactly the same rules as anyone else, not enforce quotas. Do you want to do the same for ethnic minorities, specific religions or some other arbitrary reason?

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 28 2019, @08:57PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 28 2019, @08:57PM (#886969) Journal

    Do the children end up in limbo

    What a waste of organic material. Soylent (grin)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 29 2019, @01:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 29 2019, @01:33AM (#887100)

    Of course the parent poster does. Just like with the PHP conference, even if no females applied, they should be FORCED to apply, FORCED to give a presentation.

    In this case, gay couples should be FORCED to adopt, otherwise the adoption agency is somehow at fault. And if the gay couple refuses, or gets out of it? The adoption agency should be charged, its directors sued!