For years now, Wiley has been campaigning tirelessly about fertility fraud. She even featured in the hit Netflix docuseries The Man With 1000 Kids, which told the story of serial sperm donor Jonathan Meijer.
Along with Jonathan, there is an alarming number of serial sperm donors out there who are obsessed with the idea of impregnating women under false pretences — for their own twisted reasons. Nobody knows that better than Wiley.
Growing up, Wiley had always believed Doug was her biological father. He was married to her mother, Margo, and he was a high school teacher in their hometown in America. Sadly, Doug passed away when she was seven.
Years later, 16-year-old Wiley was going through her mother’s emails, and she made a discovery.
Rather, Donor 106, real name Steve, was her biological father.
Mum had chosen him because he had certain qualities and an interest in film and politics that she thought was similar to Doug,” explains Wiley.
The pair met and went on to form a close bond. Steve told Wiley he had been a donor years ago while in college, doing it to earn a quick buck.
Years went by. The father/daughter relationship continued. Steve even officiated Wiley’s wedding to her husband, Blake. Then upon having children of her own, Wiley’s son became sick.
She undertook the genetic testing, and it transpired that Steve was not her biological father. Commercial DNA testing found it was her mother’s fertility doctor who had intentionally used his own sperm.
Upon finding out the truth, Wiley and her mother contacted the authorities as well as their lawyers. They were informed that this insemination without consent was only a crime in one state in the US.
Wiley has since set out to change the laws in Texas and other states by creating civil and criminal causes of actions for victims. As of 2022, eight US states have passed some sort of fertility fraud bill.
Wiley also decided to confront her biological father via email.
“He said I should just be grateful. I never heard from him again after I told him I would be lobbying to make this a crime.”
When Wiley went public with her story in 2020, the reaction in her local area was difficult to grapple with. She even had the doctor’s preacher call her to say he had been doing “the Lord’s work” and that she should be “grateful to have his wonderful genetics”.
Her cases against the doctor are still in the court system. She is hoping to have his medical license revoked.
Source: Eve Wiley sperm donor dad was an egomaniacal monster.