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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: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 29 2019, @05:01PM (4 children)
They keep getting caught, because they keep doing it.
I'm proposing that one of the reasons doctors do this is that they don't have to actually pay any money to the person the parents selected as the sperm donor.
I am jokingly also suggesting that this is the ONLY motive, which of course, it may not be. There may be other motives beyond not paying a donor.
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(Score: 2) by dry on Friday August 30 2019, @04:58AM (3 children)
This happens in countries where no money is paid to sperm donors such as Canada.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 03 2019, @04:36PM (2 children)
So in Canada and other heathen countries these service workers do not get paid? But what about commerce and the allmighty dollar? What could be more important than the donor getting paid?
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(Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday September 04 2019, @03:29AM (1 child)
Ethics
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 04 2019, @01:18PM
In the US, Ethics has a market value. Sadly.
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