Published News Articles/Videos
Articles related to specific cases can be found on the "Known Cases" page
General fertility fraud articles
License revoked for Vermont obstetrician accused of inseminating 2 - Democrat and Chronicle
New bipartisan measures provide new safeguards for fraudulent fertility information - Michigan House Republicans
Sperm donation is big business - BioEdge by Michael Cook
The Case of the Serial Sperm Donor - New York Times by Jaqueline Mroz
Fertility Fraud: How popular DNA kits are exposing dirty doctors - ABC7 Megan Miller
The Deceived Strike Back - Ellen Trachman
Insemination Fraud Case Scores Win - Above the Law by Ellen Trachman
The U.S. Is Experiencing An Explosion of Fertility Fraud Legislation. And That's a Good Thing - Above the Law by Ellen Trachman
Reproductive Battery: A New Crime For A New World - Above The Law by Ellen Trachman
Opinion: DNA uncovers mix-ups in assisted conception - The Enquirer by Judith Daar
The dark past of anonymous sperm donation - Mercatorn by Michael Cook
Additional news articles on Doctor Donor Fraud
Jury awards nearly $9 million to families suing Colorado fertility doctor who used own sperm to impregnate patients - Denver Post
Florida woman impregnated by doctor’s sperm awarded $5.25M in damages by jury - NBC
When an Ancestry Search Reveals Fertility Fraud - New York Times
What does it tell us that so many doctors used their own sperm?
Arizona governor signs fertility fraud bill - AP News
Ohio bill targets ‘doctor daddy’ crimes in sperm donations, in-vitro pregnancies - Ohio Capital Journal by Susan Tebben
At-Home DNA Tests Bring Reckoning to Illicit Fertility Doctors - Bloomberg Law
Conception Deception; Doctor still practicing - Texas Observer
Fertility Fraud: How popular DNA kits are exposing dirty doctors - 9 News
Additional news articles on Donor Background/Medical Fraud
Families in shock after investigation reveals sperm donor lied about his identity - KHQ News
Would anybody have paid him for his sperm?’ Georgia Supreme Court Justices get heated deciding whether family can sue. - The Reveal by Rebecca Lindstrom
One Sperm Donor. 36 Children. A mess of Lawsuits - The Atlantic by Sarah Zang
Additional news articles on Large Donor Offspring Groups
Published Medical and Law Journals
THE BIRTH OF FERTILITY FRAUD: HOW TO PROTECT WASHINGTONIANS
Uncommon Misconceptions: Holding Physicians Accountable for Insemination Fraud
Podcasts
Everything's Relative with Eve Sturges
NPR: Sick
SiriusXM: The Michael Smerconish Program
I Want to Put a Baby In You
Episode 42: Shocking DNA Test Results — Kevin’s Story
Episode 50: 3 Dads and The Journey To Find The Truth — Eve Wiley & Steve Scholl
Episode 85: Embryo Mix-Up Shocker - Attorney Eric Wrubel
Episode 91: Fraudulent Insemination - Maia Emmons-Boring
Tv/Short Film Events
Our Father
A top fertility doctor had a sickening secret: he was using his own sperm. Decades later, his “children” band together to pursue justice.- Netflix
Baby God
Documentary Baby God presents a haunting probe into the work of infamous Nevada fertility specialist Dr. Quincy Fortier, a man who deceived countless women struggling to conceive by using his own sperm — without their knowledge or consent — to impregnate them. HBO
DNA Secrets
Investigating our ancestry can help us connect with relatives and explore our heritage, but what happens when your search unexpectedly uncovers a long-held family secret? Insight talks to people who’ve had to rewrite their own personal history after a DNA test or document exposed a lifetime of lies. SBS
The Worlds Bigest Family
A man with 600 half-siblings takes a hard look at the hidden costs of sperm donor anonymity. CBC
Books/Audibles
DONOR 9623 - By Dov Fox
In this tour de force of investigative reporting, host Dov Fox unravels the case of Donor 9623, examining the complex forces and competing agendas behind the biggest reproductive hoax of our time. The story is dark, propulsive - and in an unexpected turn - hopeful. This Audible Original exposes the billion-dollar industry that creates hundreds of thousands of babies every year, through unprecedented access to its key players - and to Donor 9623 himself. . <audible link>
Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction & the Law; By Dov Fox
This book lifts the curtain on reproductive negligence, gives voice to the lives it upends, and vindicates the interests that advances in medicine and technology bring to full expression. It charts the legal universe of errors that:
(1) deprive pregnancy or parenthood of people who set out to pursue them;
(2) impose pregnancy or parenthood on those who tried to avoid these roles; or
(3) confound efforts to have a child with or without certain genetic traits.
This novel architecture forces citizens and courts to rethink the reproductive controversies of our time, and equips us to meet the new challenges-from womb transplants to gene editing-that lie just over the horizon.
The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception; by Debora Spar
The first purely commercial look at an industry that deals in humanity’s most intimate issues, this book challenges us to consider the financial promise and ethical perils we’ll face as the baby business moves inevitably forward.
Test Tube Families: Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation - by Naomi Cahn
There are few definitive answers currently provided by the law, ethics, or cultural norms. As a new generation of "donor kids" comes of age, Cahn calls for better regulation of ART, exhorting legal and policy-making communities to cease applying piecemeal laws and instead create legislation that sustains the fertility industry while simultaneously protecting the interests of donors, recipients, and the children that result from successful transfers. <Free Link>