TOPLINE The number of disturbing “fertility fraud” cases that claim dozens of women unknowingly gave birth to children fathered by more than 50 doctors across the United States continued to rise this year as medical professionals in Washington…
Embryo Destruction & Fertility
A new lawsuit claims that “one of the country’s most prominent fertility doctors” secretly used his own sperm instead of a donor’s to impregnate a woman in 1980. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Boston’s federal court, accuses Boston…
A woman is suing a former Harvard Medical School professor and fertility clinic founder for allegedly impregnating her with his sperm more than four decades ago when she and her husband were trying to conceive a child. In…
When Carolyn Bester bought a home ancestry kit late last year, she was excited to learn about her family history. “I knew plenty of people who tried DNA tests and I actually thought I was going to have…
A retired fertility doctor and Harvard Medical School professor is accused of secretly using his own sperm to impregnate a patient who, until recently, believed her 1980 artificial insemination came from an anonymous donor. In a lawsuit filed…
A FERTILITY doctor is being accused of secretly impregnating a woman after promising the sperm would come from an anonymous donor, according to a lawsuit. Sarah Depoian, 73, from Maine, US, said she and her husband first went…
When Carolyn Bester took a pair of at-home DNA tests, she was curious about whether she could find family of the anonymous donor whose sperm led to her conception 43 years ago. The results horrified her. The unknown…
A Maine woman is suing her former fertility doctor, an expert in the field and former professor with Harvard Medical School, for allegedly secretly impregnating her with his own sperm when he was supposed to have found an…
For over 40 years, a woman believed sperm from an anonymous donor was used during her artificial insemination procedure in 1980 — leading to her daughter’s birth in 1981. However, Sarah Depoian discovered her fertility doctor, Merle Berger,…
Un experimentado médico especialista en fertilidad ha sido demandado por una expaciente, quien asegura que la embarazó sin su consentimiento con su propio esperma hace más de 40 años. De acuerdo con la demanda, a la cual Univision…