A Harvard professor and founder of Boston IVF, Dr. Merle Berger, is being sued for allegedly inseminating a woman with his own sperm instead of an anonymous donor [1].
Sarah Depoian and her husband went to receive the treatment in 1980 and Berger allegedly promised “to perform an insemination using the sperm of a medical resident who resembled her husband, who did not know her, and whom she did not know. With that understanding, Ms. Depoian consented to the insemination.”
The donor-conceived child, Bester, now 42, used a home DNA test earlier this year and found that Dr. Berger was her biological father.