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tv   Frag den Lesch  Deutsche Welle  July 17, 2021 9:15pm-9:30pm CEST

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ah ah, i was conceived from the sperm of an anonymous man. i found out he started maybe $600.00 babies. now some of my siblings is starting to show up and they all want the truth of their origin. i always actually felt those with physical pieces mean missing and don't or can say people are all too often told you should be happy to be alive. but i also have an innate desire to know where i come from and who i come from, an anonymous donor can produce a 1000 children. so what was wrong with your child? don't get to affective disorder, gets a for any bipolar disorder. and don't, i can see kids have grown up together without knowing they're related. i came in close contact with my didn't know the thing. i wanted the government
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in the anonymity of sperm donors. no cold blooded ocean continued to be human as to have a story. and to have a story, one must have the true story. me. ah, it began a long time ago in philadelphia, 984. a wealthy couple couldn't get pregnant. so the husband went to see a professor of medicine. turned out the husband was in fertile gonorrhea, so the professor got him to send in his wife. a clerk warned her. then without her consent he got his best looking student to go and masturbate. and he injected the sperm into her in front of the class. she got pregnant. some time later, the professor did confess to her husband what he'd done. but the woman was never told. and neither was the son who resulted. this set the tone,
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secrets lies, and anonymity. now there are millions of people we call donor conceived. i'm one of them. me ok. my story so far as me. my parents really wanted children, but my dad wasn't able to so they went to see a doctor, and she inseminated my mother using sperm from an anonymous man. to produce me and my sister. this was england and the 1900 fifties and it had to be a total secret. but after a dad died, our mother told me and my sister that secret me. i was curious who the guy was,
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but they destroyed all the records. so i could never know until you could get basic dna testing from your blood. i met a man, david, whose parents went to the same doctor. and d n a revealed that david was my brother. he came from the same anonymous bio dad. i was great to have a brother, but now i really wanted to know who i was. a lot of him is in me. we loved our fathers both of us. so why does this to that connection matter so much . i haven't the faintest idea, but it does me. i did a lot of detective work. and with dna, we figured out the guy's identity. he was a brilliant scientist called there, told the husband of the doctor who did the deed and
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are biological father. i a david whose parents marriage was troubled. now remember finding out as a painful moment. i felt so angry. i felt so much that so many of the things i had found and still do find really frustrating in my own life would not have been frustrating. had i known that we found out that reason or sorry, maybe 600 children during his life or even more. we may be the world biggest family . we only knew of a few siblings. but then came something new, inexpensive consumer dna companies, you know, like ancestry dot com 23 and me people suddenly wanted to know about their ethnic origin or their health risks they sent in their dna. and when the results came, and some of them got a big surprise, like they have
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a lot of half siblings here so far about 45 of my stamps have been identified here on a field. so i'd like to suddenly find out your dad wasn't your biological father. it's like you're standing only edge of the sea when you're paddling and the way you go out and it pulls the sun for me and that's what it felt like to me that the been a firm foundation and suddenly i'd got to reassess everything. i felt this makes sense, but also coupled with the cement sense of loss. because it only been a year since i lost my dad. and it felt like had lost him all over again. the recently, some of this big family got together parties before this into
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a movie and neutral, quite relaxed group of people. before i came to the party, give me a chance to talk to some of my students about how they felt about finding out the truth. i had a very nothing for me, but i think we fit in southern i had a truth and authenticity which was liberating. it was like a huge moment in my life. i danced around the flat. i was happy. why? who is a palm missing? all i always, she felt those were physical bits with me missing and it so quite differently down this side of me. the hall area, i guess you'd say it felt that wasn't there. i would like to have known. i think my parents should have told me,
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i was enormously grateful that i was able to discover who my biological father was . and i can't really imagine what it would be like not to have been able to do that . i probably the, whatever the be and so now the d n a is revealing these secrets. i think it's time to take a look at this question of donor anonymity. busy because a lot of people want to know their genetic family is part of who you are. and also these secrets and lies. they can cause real harm. just as sort of ideas, it can be done with a few shakes of the rest and that's it. nothing else. that doesn't seem that there should be a bit more to it than that. i believe straw mister foggins, who knows could have been any one except he never, it is always the doctor at the back. it seems to me i've come to ottawa to find out
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about one of those dr. his brother graham is talking about duck a norman bar. when this is rebecca dixon, her parents sought assistance from dr. barton to conceive. i've heard he was called the baby god. yeah, people, people have called, i don't know who started. he was called a baby guard at some point, but they didn't know that they had a donor sperm. they weren't intending to donor sperm, they were having issues, but they went to see a doctor growing into their understanding. he used my dad firm. i had always looked different from my parents and i was aware of that. and other people had commented on it when scandals with borrowings started to come out. rebecca heard of a young woman called cat palmer, whose parents were patients borrow and turned out to be her biological father. so rebecca, that a dna test against cat and it confirmed already that we were we were half the
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sisters. so bar when was rebecca, is biomed too. but there are a lot more than them. how many do you have? i have 18 siblings. so far. you have 18 siblings and these are all from doctor baldwin. yeah. the doctor who treated the parents. yeah. used his own sperm. yeah. we found 19 of us where he used his own firm without the parents knowledge. he is my biological father, but i don't think of him in that way at all. he was always the doctor had helped my parents have me. and now i found out that he did it in a horrible way. also sometimes borrowing secretly, you, sperm, me took from other patients without consent. all these lies have real dangerous cat and i are a similar age. there's about 6 months age difference. we found out that we went to the same high school for a couple of years. we thought about how easy it would have been for us to be
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friends, but it could have also very easily been we started started dating or especially. yeah it's, it's a small circle like my family, rebecca and our new siblings have become close. and it's easy to exaggerate the importance of genetics. i found myself dealing with the situation. where was my dad? i say it doesn't matter that we're not biologically connected. you're my dad. nothing changes that this other person who is my biological father doesn't really mean anything to me. and yet i'm saying at the same time to my siblings, we had this genetic connection. let's like love each other. that's part of each other's lives. and i think it's okay that those 2 things are true at the same time . borrowing was not alone, quite a few doctors have been revealed by dna testing to have secretly used their own
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sperm. most doctors don't do what borrowing did, of course they use sperm, banks, corporations, the ship sperm around the world. millions of offspring, offspring to now. we don't know how many there is no central registry. nobody keeps tracks. nobody really knows how many offspring from one donor. but you think when a so called donor sells his firm, this farm, i make sure he is in super good health. not always. i've come to see angie. i am very, very nice to meet you in the morning. thank you very much. angie and her female partner use donor sperm to have a child. they picked
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a healthy donna or so they thought well, what we found out is that he had several debilitating mental health issues. depending on which doctors diagnosis you were looking at. it was scheduled fact of disorder skipped so for any bipolar disorder. also narcissistic personality disorder was written in there. and then he had a felony from a break and enter that he had done. and there were other arrests along the way, but i mean, then they get a medical history from this guy or did the guy just lie and they accepted the lie? yeah, they, they give them a questionnaire. they do call it a medical history questionnaire. and then they asked the donor to respond to a list of things. do you have this? do you have that? do you have this is a friend, is one of the things that he was asked, but he just checked it off. no, we notified them of our findings and they just told us we had the wrong guy. and
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then they didn't notify anybody. was the donor still active? oh yeah, they called them out of retirement to donate to other families that were waiting for 2nd or 3rd children on a waiting list. when you look at health canada as regulations, then i can definitely see why i was duped by this industry. because i mean, you can't even miss label the origin of a tomato, but you can miss label everything about a human being that is going to be creating another human being. and that doesn't seem to matter here. the thing is the law doesn't allow health canada to collect health information from donors. angie's kid is fine with only a small chance, there'll be problems. but if a donna has 50 kids with a 10 percent chance of inheriting disease, that's still 5 sick kids. the sperm bang say they're doing more genetic testing now, but in anonymous don't a can still get away with lying. here's some of the health problems kids have
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inherited from donors. some of died because they didn't have medical information. all this scares me about what my bio dad visa, i may have given his hundreds of offspring. he actually had parkinson's, almost all the time. he is producing kid, my brother david and i meet up with my other brother david, who's been looking into the health risks in my dna. let me see the best and i'll show you where, okay, there it is. hawkinson disease late onset susceptibility parkinson's disease on another genetic test or another jane. gotcha, visionary. and i guess that is definitely visa and because he had bargains and yeah, you guys are really dark stuff. this one of the dogs, the know the great news here and the gene set this man gave his other than that is .

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