Woman learns parents' fertility doctor is really her biological father

[Diamond_Dog]

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Dr. Peven helped Mrs. Hall conceive Jaime, who never thought anything was unusual about her upbringing. Her parents kept her artificial insemination a secret for many years. However, she eventually found out about it and took a paternity test to find out the results.

“The result came back that my dad was 100% not my biological father,” Hall said.

Her mother eventually said Peven performed a procedure to help “make her husband’s sperm swim faster.”

“I’m seeing half-siblings and I’m seeing a bunch of things on there that I didn’t understand, but there was the name that was managing the accounts,” Hall said. “It was the only name that I recognized, and, as soon as I saw it said, ‘Peven,’ I just looked up at my husband, and said ‘I know who my biological father is.”

Several fertility doctors across the United States have used their own sperm to promote pregnancies in women. According to The New York Post, Dr. Quincy Fortier fathered several children by injecting his patients with his very own semen.

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Currently, it’s not illegal for a doctor to use his own sperm to artificially impregnate a patient, even without permission.

https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/woman-learns-parents-fertility-doctor-is-really-her-biological-father/

****How can this not be illegal?? They can do this legally without a woman’s permission? This just blows my mind.

[LastDemocratInSC]

1. There have been several similar reports over the past few years.

Maybe they are the same, I don't recall the names and circumstances. A very odd thing anyway.

[Nay]

2. I have no idea how this can be legal, either. One would think that if a woman was

picking a donor father to contribute sperm, you'd have some choice in the matter. You'd want a donor of at least normal attractiveness, higher IQ, no genetic illnesses, etc.

I remember one of these cases in which the doctor had 'fathered' dozens and dozens of children. He was uncovered when so many of the children conceived at his clinic looked exactly like him -- he was quite ugly, and so were nearly all those poor kids.

[Srkdqltr]

3. Creepy

[niyad]

4. It is not illegal because women don't count as actual huuman beings.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. That must be it, niyad.

I thought that in this day and age, surely a procedure like this would be long outlawed, but evidently not. It should be illegal to do this without a woman’s permission, and as a woman, I am outraged over it.

[niyad]

6. As am I, Diamond Dog. The WAR AGAINST WOMEN goes on and on.

[Freethinker65]

7. Obviously the woman is just a vessel and her egg is useless without sperm

Of course this should be illegal. It is not what was contracted for. Besides being unethical, there are cases of half siblings unknowingly getting together which can lead to genetic (not to mention emotional) nightmares.

So if the woman can't sue because she is nothing to society but a broodmare, perhaps a husband (if involved) whose sperm was supposed to be used or who picked the donor he wanted (again, the woman's desires are not actionable) can sue for breach of contract, trespassing, and loss of marital relations.