There have been more than 20 instances in recent of fertility doctors duping their patients. Photo: Unsplash/Tim Bish
A woman is suing a New York fertility doctor, claiming he used his own sperm to secretly impregnate multiple patients – something she said she discovered when DNA genealogy tests revealed she had at least nine half-siblings.
The lawsuit was filed by the 35-year-old daughter of a woman who got fertility treatments from Dr Morris Wortman in Rochester in the 1980s. It said he falsely told the family the sperm donor had been a local medical student.
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