Fertility Doctor Accused of Using His Own Sperm

A fertility specialist in the U.S. who allegedly used his own sperm to inseminate multiple patients has been charged with two counts of obstruction of Justice after being rumbled when a former client ordered a DNA test on the Internet.

Court documents state Cline admitted his action were wrong to inseminate the women with his own sperm.

A woman who says Cline is her biological father toldFox59 that “it was unethical what he did”.

The woman, surprised to find that she was related to eight other users on the website, reached out to a local news station, which connected the relatives, ordered subsequent DNA tests and confirmed the eight were siblings, the affidavit said. However, the affidavit said that paternity tests conducted in August proved Cline had a 99.9 percent probability of being the father of the two women who initially filed the complaint.

Dr. Donald Cline, now 77, pleaded not guilty on Monday in Marion County Supreme Court in Indianapolis to two counts of felony obstruction of justice.

The investigation into a former fertility doctor who used own sperm on patients is sparking calls for change in state laws.

According to court documents, Cline admitted to using his own sperm approximately 50 times.

Cline has faced allegations like these time and again throughout his decades-long career, but he has repeatedly denied them, which is why he’s facing obstruction charges.

Prosecutors say in response to the complaint Dr. Cline provided an official written letter.

According to reports, Dr. Donald J. Cline operated his own fertility clinic in Indianapolis for eight years in the 1970s.

What was already known to Carrie was that she had been conceived by a sperm donor father, used by her parents in the 1980s after their attempts to have a baby were fruitless.

In court documents, prosecutors assert that Cline was revealed by online DNA testing sites and that he once said he may have used his sperm 50 times. Each had been told that the sperm was donated by medical students. “I have been retired from practice since April 30, 2009”.

He said he didn’t always have access to fresh sperm and never used a sperm bank, but his children claimed he used one.

Following that meeting, four of the siblings filed a complaint with the Indiana Attorney General’s Office asking for an investigation into Cline’s medical practices.

Cline’s attorney says he’s not accused of not cooperating with authorities. Cline said he hadn’t done it more than eight times.