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Jaime Hall took an at-home DNA test when she learned about the fertility troubles her parents experienced early in their marriage, which had led them to seek out a fertility specialist. She knew she was the product of artificial insemination, but she soon discovered something else: according to the test results, her biological father was her parents’ fertility doctor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe name \u2018Peven\u2019 appeared. I very quickly made the association he\u2019s on my birth certificate and I remembered him being my mother\u2019s OB\/GYN, so I looked at my husband and I said, \u2018I don\u2019t think my donor is who my mom thought it was,\u2019\u201d Hall said, according to Click On Detroit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Dr. Philip Peven threw away the sperm sample provided him by the Halls, substituting his own. When Hall eventually visited the now 104-year-old Peven and confronted him about the incident, he told her<\/a> it was to ensure the viability of the sample.<\/p>\n

And, as in other cases, she wasn\u2019t alone. There were five other half-siblings whom she knew. \u201cAll of us were born in the same hospital, all of our birth certificates show Dr Peven as our OB\/GYN, not our father,\u201d Hall told the Daily Mail<\/a>. Peven admitted to doing the same with hundreds of other women as well.<\/p>\n

READ: Washington state bill would criminalize \u2018doctor-conceived\u2019 fertility fraud<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sadly, Hall\u2019s story is not unique. As Live Action News has reported<\/a>, Dr. Paul Brennan Jones was accused of secretly fathering at least nine children after using his own sperm, rather than the anonymous donors women thought they were getting \u2013 an all-too-common theme. Another former fertility doctor, Gary Vandenberg, was similarly exposed through commercial DNA testing. In one case, a doctor used a stranger\u2019s sperm<\/a> rather than the husband\u2019s, and this discovery resulted in \u201ca trauma that I never could have imagined,\u201d according to the victim.<\/p>\n

Internationally, the pattern remains consistent. In The Netherlands, gynecologist Dr. Jos Beek fathered<\/a> at least 21 children to parents struggling with infertility in the 1970s and 1980s, unbeknownst to them, and destroyed the records before his death. An investigation<\/a> in the United Kingdom revealed that thousands of people were conceived using sperm donors from people other than those whom they were told \u2013 including one clinic director\u2019s husband who may have fathered<\/a> up to 1,000 babies, all unbeknownst to the mothers.<\/p>\n

Shockingly, this kind of fraud is not illegal in many states. Only in the past three years have certain states begun passing laws against \u201cfertility fraud\u201d \u2013 Indiana, Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Arkansas, New York, and Utah. Seven other states having introduced recent legislation, according to the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Jaime Hall took an at-home DNA test when she learned about the fertility troubles her parents experienced early in their marriage, which had led them to seek out a fertility specialist. 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