In the News

Consult Articles or Journalistic Investigations on Various Issues Related to Third-Party Reproduction

Chouinard, M.-A. (2025, April 29). Trois parents plutôt que deux. Le Devoir.

Fournier, A. (2025, April 26). Un enfant peut légalement avoir plus de deux parents, tranche la Cour supérieure. Radio-Canada Info.

Leduc, L. & Perreault, M. (2025, April 25). Un enfant doit pouvoir avoir plus de deux parents, tranche la Cour supérieure. La Presse.

Conseil du statut de la femme. (2023). Grossesses pour autrui : état de la situation au Québec.

Christensen, J. & Kounang, N. (2022, November 21). Parents welcome twins from embryos frozen 30 years ago. CTV News.

Weig, N. (2022, July 20). Iowa man whose dying father revealed fertility fraud, celebrates new Iowa law. Iowa’s News Now.

Trépanier, A. (s. d.). 16 enfants pour le Dr Barwin : d’autres frères et soeurs recherchés au Québec. Récits numériques, Radio-Canada.

Karpinski, I. (2022, May 18). Dr. Donald Cline pays $1.35M in donor siblings’ civil case settlements; What we uncovered. Fox59.

Bhagchandani, U. (2022, May 17) Where is Dr Donald Cline from Netflix’s Our Father now? In his 80s, he’s still alive and lives in Indiana where he inseminated female patients – but he still hasn’t confessed to a motive. Style.

Pelisek, C. (2022, May 11). How a group of siblings uncovered a fertility doctor who was serially impregnating his own patients. People.

Lukpat, A. (2022, April 28). Fertility doctor accused of using his own sperm is ordered to pay millions. The New York Times.

Williams, A. (2022, April 9). La guerre en Ukraine fait bondir la demande pour des mères porteuses canadiennes. Radio-Canada Info.

Salcedo, A. (2022, April 6). Couple sues fertility clinic, saying they had to abort stranger’s baby. The Washington Post.

Kirpichenko, M. & Weis, C. (2022, April 4). The impact of the war in Ukraine on the Russian fertility industry. BioNews.

Grace, A. (2022, April 1). I found out my gynecologist was my secret dad — and he knew it. New York Post.

Galpern, E. (2022, March 31). War in Ukraine Exacerbates Problems with Surrogacy Industry; Comprehensive regulation needed to address health and rights of surrogates. Center for Genetics and Society.

Ring, W. (2022, March 30). Jury gives $5.25M to woman impregnated by doctor’s own sperm. The Associated Press.

Flynn, H. (2022, March 21). UK visas made available to Ukraine surrogates as babies stranded in Kyiv. BioNews.

Mahmoud, Z. & Horsey, K.. (2022, March 7). Ukrainian Surrogates: a surprising silence. BioNews.

Motluk, A. (2022, March 1). Ukraine’s surrogacy industry has put women in impossible positions. The Atlantic.

Mroz, J. (2022, February 28). When an ancestry search reveals fertility fraud. The New York Times.

Baker, J. (2022, February 23). ‘A nightmare’: Parents fear for Australian surrogate babies in Ukraine. The Sydney Morning Herald.

Sowry, B. (2022, February 21). First baby born via surrogacy to same-sex couple in Northern Ireland. BioNews.

Retassie, R. (2022, February 14). Vermont doctor’s licence revoked after he used his own sperm on patients. BioNews.

Trachman, E. (2022, February 9). Denmark threatens to deport surrogate-born children. Above the Law.

Burke, H., Gilman, L., & Nordqvist, P. (2022, February 7). How donating sperm or eggs affects donors’ own lives and relationships. BioNews.

Jacobson, D. (2022, February 7). Sperm mix-up lawsuit launched after ancestry test reveals different heritage. BioNews.

Cahn, N. & Suter, S. (2022, January 18). Sperm donation is largely unregulated, but that could soon change as lawsuits multiply. The Conversation.

Magowan, J. (2022, January 17). Donor conceived baby put up for adoption over ethnicity and sperm donor sued for fraud. BioNews.

Dockser Marcus, A. (2022, January 2). A grieving family wonders: What if they had known the medical history of sperm donor 1558? The Wall Street Journal.

Pasquesoone, V. (2021, December 21). Quand des tests ADN jettent le trouble sur le recours de gynécologues à leur propre sperme pour des inséminations. France Info.

SBS Dateline. (2021, November 2). Super donor: Nearly 100 kids and counting [vidéo]. Youtube.

CBC News. (2021, November 1). Judge approves settlement in case of disgraced Ottawa fertility doctor. CBC News.

Kleeman, J. (2021, September 25). The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’. The Guardian.

Trépanier, A. (2021, July 28). Insémination artificielle : plus de 13 M$ réclamés au Dr Norman Barwin. Radio-Canada Info.

Motluk, A. (2021, June 22). What does it tell us that so many doctors used their own sperm? HeyReprotech.

Stromquist, K. (2021, May 1). Doctor in fertility case dies at age 80; North Little Rock family’s suit placed on pause. Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

Trachman, E. (2021, April 21). After last week’s column, the sperm-swapping doctor retires. Above the Law.

Garrett, R. T. (2021, April 14). ‘Daddy doctor’ redux: Dallas woman who got Texas to criminalize fertility fraud targets doctors’ licenses. The Dallas Morning News.

MacBride, K. (2021, January 6). Fertility doctors used their sperm to get patients pregnant. The children want justice. Vice News.

Ore, J. (2020, September 19). How a Toronto woman discovered she has up to 600 half-siblings. CBC Radio.

Zhang, S. (April 2019). The fertility doctor’s secret. The Atlantic.

 

Podcasts and Reports on the Topic

Bouillon, M.-C. (Host). (2024, March 3). Nouvelle législation pour les femmes porteuses [Report]. In M.-O. Marcoux-Fortier (Director), Tout terrain. Société Radio-Canada.

Fillion, G. (2023, February 7). Gérald Fillion raconte comment il est devenu père grâce à la GPA [Radio interview]. In Pénélope. Société Radio-Canada.

Nguyen, C. (Journalist) & Carroll, J. (News Photographer). (2023, February 2). Fertility Deception [Report]. In We Investigate. NBC Bay Area.

Trépanier, A. (Host). (2021). Les trahisons du Dr Barwin [Audio podcast]. Société Radio-Canada.

Kleeman, J. (Host). (2020). The Immaculate Deception [Audio podcast]. Somethin’ Else et Sony Music Entertainment.

White, J. & Trachman, E. (Hosts). (2018-2025). I Want to Put a Baby in You [Audio podcast].

Judge, P. (Host). (2018, November 21). Message in a bottle (no 8) [Audio podcast episode]. In This Is Love. Criminal Productions.