Prominent Fertility Doctors Accused Of Using Their Own Sperm On Patients

One of the two did so more recently than you'd probably think.

Excerpt: “When doctors take the Hippocratic Oath, they promise to treat their patients faithfully, while doing no harm. But apparently that oath isn’t specific enough because, at one point, a lot of fertility doctors didn’t think that it covered *not* using their own sperm to inseminate a patient. Indeed, the number of doctors found to have used their own sperm to secretly inseminate their patients — instead of using sperm from, like, the patients’ spouse, partner, or a promised anonymous sperm donor — has been outright shocking. Over 80 doctors have been accused or concretely shown to have been illicit “doctor donors.” After years of having popular home DNA tests readily available, you might think we were about done with these discoveries. But you would be wrong.”

Ellen Trachman is the Managing Attorney of Trachman Law Center, LLC, and a regular contributor to the ‘AboveTheLaw’ platform.