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Morbidly fascinating, I would encourage everyone to check out this episode of the podcast Behind the Bastards: https://www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/all-fe
by metamet 7y ago
Morbidly fascinating, I would encourage everyone to check out this episode of the podcast Behind the Bastards: https://www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/all-fertility-doctors-are-bastards.htm https://www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/all-fertility-doc...
There are multiple fertility doctors who have used their own sperm to impregnate their patients. Sources are listed (in plain text--looks like they need to fix the HTML), but it was shocking to learn about. Here are a few of the references:
* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/us/fertility-doctor-pregnant-women.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/us/fertility-doctor-pregn...
* https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2019/08/26/fertility-fraud https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2019/08/26/fertility...
* https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9193014/British-man-fathered-600-children-at-own-fertility-clinic.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9193014/British-man-fathere...
- aidenn0 7y agoPrior to the ability to freeze sperm, the donor needed to be on-site at the time of fertilization. On top of that, the cultural shame around infertility issues meant that the mother didn't want too many details of the donor anyways. It's super-creepy through the lens of today, but only IMO less so (but still creepy) for the time in which it happens.