A woman took an at-home DNA test and learned her mom's fertility doctor is secretly her father: lawsuit

Thu, 12/14/2023 - 10:54

A 23andme DNA test kit. — A fertility clinic founder has been accused in a new lawsuit of secretly impregnating a patient. Her daughter figured it out after taking a DNA test, the lawsuit alleges.
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Dr. Merle Berger, the now-retired founder of a large US fertility clinic, is facing a lawsuit.
A woman who was his patient in 1980 alleges he impregnated her using his own sperm.
Dr. Berger's lawyer says the allegations have "no legal or factual merit, and will be disproven in court."

A former professor at Harvard Medical School and founder of one of the nation's largest fertility clinics is being accused of secretly impregnating a patient in 1980 after promising the sperm would come from an anonymous donor, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.