It was mom, she wanted to meet her anonymous sperm donor, but her curiosity hurt her

A woman wanted to be a mother and became pregnant through the service of a sperm bank. When his daughter was 5 years old investigated the identity the anonymous donor and received a warning with a $ 20,000 fine for non-compliance with privacy regulations. Also, you they removed the bulbs I bought it for another pregnancy.

The protagonist of the story is Danielle Teuscher, a young American from Portland, mother of Zoe. According to his own version, the initial intention was to discover through a DNA badysis the origin of the ancestors of his daughter, in order to detect and prevent health problems.

The study, which was conducted at the 23andme genetic diagnosis clinic, yielded a result that completely surprised her: Zoe's genetics coincided with that of a lady who It was his paternal grandmother.

After several weeks wondering if it would be ok to contact the woman, Danielle wrote a message through a platform of the laboratory where the study was conducted.

"Hi, I think your son could have been the donor of my daughter. I've spent weeks thinking about contacting her or not. The last thing I would like to do is go beyond or put somebody in any way uncomfortable. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that we are here and that we are open to contact you. With best wishes, Danielle and Zoé, "wrote the young woman.

Far from receiving a positive response, the woman, who identified herself as Jennifer, told her that she did not understand the message. Then Danielle apologizes and no longer writes.

It seemed that the possibility of meeting Zoe's biological father had simply been truncated. But shortly after Teuscher received a notification from the sperm bank to which he had resorted, where he was warned that he would be fined $ 20,000 for not having respected the confidentiality rules that he had signed.

It was not just an economic threat. The letter sent to him by the Northwest Cryobank informs him that access removed to four other ampoules with the sperm from the same donor, which she had reserved for that in the future Your daughter has brothers and sisters.

Danielle did not remain silent and clarified what she considers to be her daughter's rights: "My daughter is a human being who lives, breathes and feels, she did not sign this contract". When losing the bulbs, he complained: "They took my babies, to my future babies. "From the sperm bank, they had warned her that they would not fine her, but that she would not recover sperm.

Northwest Cryobank said that all donors will not want to know the families that have received sperm and that it is also a right. "On the other side of the gift, there is a human being who can have a partner, parents, a job and their own children," the institution said. "And unsolicited contact "could endanger these relationships and these families. "