A top fertility doctor had a sickening secret in the new true crime Netflix Documentary, “Our Father”
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A top fertility doctor had a sickening secret: he was using his own sperm. Decades later, his “children” band together to pursue justice.
After a woman’s at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.
Talk about your invasion of privacy and trust. Doctors are meant to be healers, preventers, and in rare cases miracle workers. However, more and more it seems like this is happening in the medical community. Lies and abuse.
This documentary unpacks the case of Dr. Donald Cline. For years, Cline secretly fathered dozens of his patients’ children—and was only caught when one of those children attempted to connect with her half-siblings.
Jacoba Ballard decided to take a DNA test one day, in hopes of finding one or two half-siblings with the same sperm donor. “Growing up, I felt different,” she says in the documentary’s trailer. But when she found seven matches, she realized that she had stumbled across a major discovery.
Not only did she have new relatives to reach out to, but in the film’s synopsis, Netflix notes that the number “defied best practices in fertility medicine.” A shocking question began to form: Did Dr. Cline inseminate his patients with his own sperm for decades without their knowledge or consent? The simple answer, yes.
“Our Father” is only on Netflix May 11.
