A doctor used his sperm in fertility treatments and now has more than 50 children

March 27, 2019

The specialist had to confront several of his children who came together to promote an initiative punishing doctors who swindle their patients.

A doctor in the state of Indiana, United States, He was suspended from his license after discovering that he had used his own sperm to perform fertility treatments to his patients.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the Dr. Donald Cline performed insemination procedures using his own sperm in more than 50 women without their consent.

According to information published by the British website, Daily mail, the doctor told his patients that the donors used were residents of medical laboratories and that each sperm sample was used for only three procedures.

Jacoba Ballard was one of the first to discover kinship. In 2014, he looked for the rest of his brothers.
For this the woman joined a forum for people adopted and spurred by a sperm donation. It was then that he found another woman who had been healed by Cline.

But when she contacted her supposed sister, the woman told her that she knew another woman who had also been with Dr. Donald Cline. From there, the number of brothers has not stopped increasing.

After an exhaustive search, Ballard and his brothers found another woman who, like them, shared the same DNA, and she provided information about her cousin, the Indianapolis doctor.

Finally in 2017, The medical specialist met his eight children and admitted to using his own sperm in more than 50 patients without his consent.

The confessions led to a criminal investigation against Cline, where He was accused of lying to patients undergoing fertility treatment. In 2017, at the age of 80, he was suspended without a medical license for a year.

He was born from a sperm donation and has already "found" 40 brothers

However, the victims they could not file a complaint against the doctorbecause in Indiana, fertility doctors are not forbidden to use their own sperm.

Whatever the case may be, Ballard and his brothers have promoted legislation that characterizes deception for infertility patients as a crime, as well as the use of one's sperm or eggs without prior warning.