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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.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday August 28 2019, @08:35PM
Thought provoking question. It would depend on state law [wikipedia.org] if Astrue v. Capato would be precedent for it. If Wikipedia is right then it is the inheritance laws of the state in which the will was signed which would control such a decision. And states differ [legalmatch.com] in what rights and obligation sperm donors have.
Could the fradulent implantation of the sperm change that in a state where there are no obligations? I guess we'll wait for the lawsuit, appeals, and then Supreme Court case.
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