Woman handed $5m after doctor used his own sperm instead of donor's

MSN ^ | 3.31.2022 | Isabel Keane

[nickcarraway]

Cecil Jacobson was the fertility doctor who got busted in the early 90s for using his DNA on his patients. In the 60s as a researcher he supposedly impregnated a male baboon, but he supposedly terminated the pregnancy.

On 3/14/1992, Saturday Night Live did a skit called My 75 Kids where John Goodman played Cecil Jacobson and Cris Farley played one of the children, but it's blocked on YouTube.

[Rebelbase]

Let this be a message to all men. Spread your seed sparingly.

[libh8er]

He wanted to donate it directly from his body to hers.

A distant second best option was indirectly.

[Jamestown1630]

Um, I hesitate to ask; but how did he ‘impregnate’ a male baboon?

[Angelino97]

I don’t know why a doctor would do this when an approved donor was already available.

Ego. A desire to pass on his genes; a very primal instinct.

[TexasGator]

“Was the money collected by woman or just awarded a judgement? “

Read the first sentence.

[Jamestown1630]

I his case, obviously a perverted instinct.

[poinq]

Not sure why this is a problem to the doctor. He must be in his 80s. He gave the money to the mother of his child. So it probably goes to his child in the end. He can’t care too much.

This has happened several times. For some reason this is common. I assume the women is Ok, the cuckold may be a bit miffed. But that medical student wasn’t really a medical student either. Sperm banks are scams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Qihr-XVAw

[JayGalt]

Because if there were the woman had no right to have a child that was related to herself biologically?
Do you also believe in global warming &/or zero population growth?
Should your value judgment that finding a home for an orphaned child trumps this woman’s desire for a genetically related child have any impact on her life? Should it negate her desire to carry and birth a child of her own?

[enumerated]

I wonder if the doctor said “you’re going to feel a little prick” when he deposited the sperm.

[353FMG]

Doctor was horny beyond control?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Probably from an old case several decades back, in which a mormon doctor was doing that to his women patients.

The women began to wonder why their kids looked more like the doctor than the donor.

[Rastus]

he had supposedly implanted a fertilized egg from a female baboon into the male's abdominal cavity. He claimed that he had terminated the pregnancy after four months, but never published his results in scientific publications.

[Jamestown1630]

I wonder what he supposed would happen.

He sounds nuts.

[snippy_about_it]

I vaguely recall a story about a small town doctor who did this and many of the town’s children were his and hence unbeknownst to them related to each other. Now I have to go find it.

[joedish]

I wonder how many of these go a certain way if the marriage dissolves. The woman saying the live in father has no visitation rights because he is not the biological father. Seems fraught with danger for the “non” biological parent. Also imagine when the spawn learns they were so disappointing to their mother, that she sued because she wanted something different.

[Jamestown1630]

They probably go just as badly as many divorces go these days.

[OldWarBaby]

I remember the small town Quack story where folks started noticing the kids were all looking alike——scared the folks when they realized some of them, the kids, might want to marry each other.

[Trillian]

Just how often does this happen? There are so many stories..

[pfflier]

I did read it that is why I said what I did.

If a donor is supposed to be anonymous then the donor was until the DNA testing. That test was a choice, not an obligation.

If the Dr would have done insemination "the old fashioned way" that would be completely different.