In the News

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

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

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

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

Conseil du statut de la femme. (January, 2023). Étude Grossesses pour autrui : État de la situation au Québec. ISBN : 978-2-550-93785-2

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

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

Antoine Trépanier (N.D). 16 enfants pour le Dr Barwin, D’autres frères et soeurs recherchés au Québec. Récits numérique, Radio-Canada.

Umesh Bhagchandani. (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.

Christine Pelisek. (2022, May 11). How a Group of Siblings Uncovered a Fertility Doctor Who Was Serially Impregnating His Own Patients. People.

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

Alyssa Lukpat. (2022, April 28). Fertility Doctor Accused of Using His Own Sperm Is Ordered to Pay Millions. The New York Times.

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

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

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

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

Wilson Ring. (2022, March 31). Jury Gives $5.25M to Woman Impregnated by Doctor’s Own Sperm. Medscape Psychiatry.

Emily Galpern. (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.

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

Zaina Mahmoud & Dr Kirsty Horsey. (2022, March 7). Ukrainian Surrogates: a surprising silence. BioNews.

Alison Motluk. (2022, March 1). Ukraine’s Surrogacy Industry Has Put Women in Impossible Positions. The Atlantic.

Jacqueline Mroz. (2022, February 28). When an Ancestry Search Reveals Fertility Fraud. The New York Times.

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

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

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

Ellen Trachman. (2022, February 9). Denmark Threatens To Deport Surrogate-Born Children. Above the Law.

Hazel Burke, Dr Leah Gilman & Petra Nordqvist. (2022, February 7). How donating sperm or eggs affects donors’ own lives and relationships. BioNews.

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

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

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

Amy Dockser Marcus. (2022, January 2). A Grieving Family Wonders: What if They Had Known the Medical History of Sperm Donor 1558?. The Wall Street Journal.

Valentine Pasquesoone. (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. [Video]. Youtube.

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

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

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

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

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

Ellen Trachman. (2021, April 21). After Last Week’s Column, The Sperm-Swapping Doctor Retires. Above the Law.

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

Katie MacBride. (2021, January 6). Fertility Doctors Used Their Sperm to Get Patients Pregnant. The Children Want Justice. Vice News.

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

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

 

Podcasts and Reports on the Topic

Marie-Christine Bouillon. (March 3, 2024). Nouvelle législation pour les femmes porteuses. Radio-Canada Ohdio.

Pénéloppe McQuade. (February 7, 2023). [ICI PREMIÈRE] Gérald Fillion raconte comment il est devenu père grâce à la GPA. Radio-Canada Ohdio.

Candice Nguyen et. Jeremy Carroll. (February 2, 2023).  Fertility Deception. NBC.

Antoine Trépanier – Les trahisons du Dr Barwin – Ohdio

The Immaculate Deception – Somethin’ else – Sony Music Entertainment

Jennifer White & Ellen Trachman – I Want to Put a Baby in You

Karen Liebreich – Message in a bottle – This is Love