Fertility fraud laws could have far-reaching consequences
A wave of new laws in American states banning “fertility fraud” could have important effects upon informed consent in medical practice. With the help of...
Landmark fertility fraud case settled in Vermont for US$5.25 million
In a landmark case of fertility fraud, a jury has awarded a woman in Vermont US$5.25 million dollars in damages because her family doctor used...
Washington state may criminalise fertility fraud
As more and more people discover through DNA tests that they are “doctor-conceived” instead of donor-conceived, Washington State’s Senate Committee on Law and Justice is...
Dutch IVF doctor secretly fathered at least 21 children
A third doctor who used his own sperm to inseminate his patients has surfaced in the Netherlands. A DNA investigation has shown that Dr Jan...
French doctors accused of ‘fertility fraud’
For the first time in France, doctors have been accused of “fertility fraud”. An association which links donor-conceived children with parents, PMAnonyme, notified authorities that...
Dutch fertility doctor sired at least 47 children
Fertility fraud files. The number of children sired by a gynaecologist at a hospital in the Dutch city of Zwolle has risen to at least...
An even darker side to fertility fraud in the 60s and 70s
Dispatches from the Reproductive Revolution. Fertility fraud is becoming a ho-hum story, but just for the record, a woman in Louisville, Kentucky, discovered recently that...
Another case of fertility fraud in the US
Oops, not again. Another American gynaecologist using his own sperm to impregnate his patients? Yup, sorry. Dr Morris Wortman, of Rochester, New York, is being...
More family secrets unveiled in Netherlands
Fertility fraud files. Another success for family reunions through genetic databases! A woman looking for her sperm donor father on the internet has discovered that...
What about the super-sperm-spreaders?
Who are the modern equivalents of Genghis Khan? Visitors to the Genghis Khan Monument at Zonjin Boldog, Mongolia. A controversial genetic study published in 2003...
More adventures in the Reproductive Revolution: sperm donation
Would you marry a professional sperm donor? Hannah and her suitors “Bachelorette” is a reality TV show on the ABC network featuring Hannah Brown, Miss...
Latest revelations about sperm donation secrets
From The Netherlands, Israel and the US It may be hard to wind up our readers’ interest in abuses of sperm donation after the news...