{"id":1444504,"date":"2022-04-18T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444504"},"modified":"2022-04-18T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T20:00:20","slug":"our-dad-netflix-trailer-teases-tale-of-fertility-physician-who-used-their-own-sperm-to-impregnate-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/our-dad-netflix-trailer-teases-tale-of-fertility-physician-who-used-their-own-sperm-to-impregnate-women\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our Dad\u2019 Netflix Trailer Teases Tale Of Fertility Physician Who Used THEIR OWN Sperm To Impregnate Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Four-dad-netflix-trailer-teases-tale-of-fertility-physician-who-used-their-own-sperm-to-impregnate-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444504&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Paper-doll-chain-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A new Netflix documentary has fans equally fascinated and repulsed. \u201cOur Father\u201d follows the story of Dr. Donald Cline, an Indianapolis-based fertility doctor who secretly used his own sperm to impregnate at least 50 women in the 1970s and 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Cline was also the subject of an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/04\/fertility-doctor-donald-cline-secret-children\/583249\/\"><span>article<\/span><\/a><span> in The Atlantic which was published in 2019. The publication explained how DNA testing led to the exposure of the doctor\u2019s crime, with siblings discovering each other\u2019s existence thanks to popular sites such as ancestry.com. The documentary expands on this investigation, interviewing some of these \u201csiblings\u201d about how Dr. Cline swapped their intended father\u2019s sperm for his own.<\/span><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><span>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/our-father-documentary-trailer\">synopsis<\/a> for the movie reads:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Jacoba Ballard was conceived through a sperm donor using artificial insemination. Growing up as an only child, she dreamed of having siblings. After using an at-home DNA test, Ballard discovered that she had not one but seven half-siblings. Unfortunately, this isn\u2019t a story about one happy family reunion. As the group of siblings set out to learn more about their curious family tree, they uncovered a sickening truth: Their parents\u2019 fertility doctor had been inseminating his patients with his own sperm \u2014 without their consent.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>According to the Atlantic expose, six of the victims confronted Cline at a restaurant when the doctor was in his 70s. The meeting was set up by Cline\u2019s son.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shockingly, at the time Cline was exposed there were no laws making his actions illegal. The fertility doctor pleaded guilty to two felony counts of obstructing justice by lying to state investigators about using his own sperm at his fertility clinic. He received a one-year suspended jail sentence in 2017 and has served no time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many of the patients did agree to use anonymous donor sperm, not realizing their doctor was providing the samples himself. However, at this point in time the fertility industry was just starting out and there weren\u2019t catalogs of donors that could be whittled down based on physical or other characteristics. As The Atlantic reported, the process was often shrouded in secrecy, with doctors recommending parents never tell their children how they were conceived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For example, victim Liz White had been trying to conceive for two and a half years using the IVF process and her husband\u2019s frozen sperm. Upon finding out Dr. Cline secretly provided the sperm which led to her children\u2019s conception, White said, \u201cI feel like I was raped 15 times.\u201d White had agreed to using the fresh sperm of a medical resident who resembled her husband, but not to using the doctor\u2019s sample. She claims Cline\u2019s actions crossed a line and made her feel violated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The documentary \u201cOur Father\u201d premieres on Netflix May 11.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same?<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"> <i><span>Become a member now and join our mission.<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Netflix documentary has fans equally fascinated and repulsed. \u201cOur Father\u201d follows the story of Dr. Donald Cline, an Indianapolis-based fertility doctor who secretly used his own sperm to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1444519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}