The new documentary from the streaming service giant centres around Dr. Donald Cline, a fertility doctor who secretly used his own sperm when inseminating his IVF patients. As a result, it saw the former doctor fathering at least 50 children throughout the 1970s and ’80s.
Cline had told the women who came to him for help that he used the sperm of anonymous medical residents that resembled their husband, and in some cases they were told that they would get the husband’s sperm.
DNA testing did not exist when Cline was practicing, so he assumed he’d never get caught. The former doctor also told his patients they shouldn’t tell their children how they were conceived.
But when DNA tests became popular like Ancestry.com and 23andMe, those sharing Cline’s DNA began to connect the dots.
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