What Can Parents Do if Their Sperm Donor Lied? – The Atlantic
Sarah Zhang: In your book, you covered several cases where reproductive technology gone wrong poses these really hard questions: white parents who were inseminated with the wrong donor sperm and ended up with a Black child, parents who had aborted based on an incorrect fetal diagnosis, a surrogate who didn t want to relinquish the child. What specifically drew you to this case of Donor 9623 so much that you wanted to do a whole podcast about it?
Dov Fox: I thought this case was really gray. It wasn t that there was just an obvious loophole in the legal framework or the law hadn t caught up to the advances in technology. It raised really deep, hard, fundamental questions about human existence, with an eye to the future of gene editing and embryo screening what it means to be a parent and what is reasonable for would-be parents to expect. That s an uncomfortable place for judges and for lawmakers.
This was one of the very largest and most international sperm banks that shipped to tens of thousands of parents in dozens of countries all over the world. This is an especially popular donor for more than a decade. And there were so many parts of his history that were concealed or misrepresented his health and his criminal record and his educational background.
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