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Kelly Rissman

Couple sues doctor for ‘medical rape’ after he allegedly impregnated woman with other donor’s sperm

A couple is suing a fertility doctor who allegedly impregnated the wife with a donor’s sperm rather than her husband’s — a detail they only discovered decades later - (Yui Mok/PA Wire)

A California couple is suing a fertility doctor for impregnating the wife with a stranger’s sperm rather than her husband’s, a new lawsuit states.

The duo, known in the complaint as Jane and John Roe, sued Dr. Hal C. Danzer for “medically raping” Jane when he artificially inseminated her using the sperm of a donor rather than that of her husband in the 1980s, according to the suit obtained by The Independent. It wasn’t until earlier this year that the pair discovered that John was not biologically related to his daughters.

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