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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 RS3 on Thursday August 29 2019, @04:02AM

    by RS3 (6367) on Thursday August 29 2019, @04:02AM (#887164)

    I think you completely misunderstood me, but that's (all too) common.

    I completely agree with you, and I'm not sure why you write from an adversarial stance. I clearly said how I feel about the whole thing. "I do not feel I have that right."

    Again, as I previously wrote, I don't feel I have the right to dictate other people's decisions such as sperm donor traits, and everything you listed.

    But, some people (not me) feel they have that right, and in fact form governments, pass laws, etc.

    The next level is: do you believe in democracy? If "yes", then you must accept the majority's laws.

    If "no", well, it's too late and I'm too tired...

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