March 17, 2021 at 11:25 AM
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At-home DNA testing kits, like 23andMe and AncestryDNA.com, have uncovered an unnerving number of doctors who, unknown to their patients, substituted their
own sperm for the promised donor sperm or spouse’s sperm. Many of the doctors who have been caught are deceased or retired. Some have been close enough to retirement that they immediately retired once their inappropriate conduct was discovered. But there’s one guy who refuses to accept the gravity of his actions: Dr. Kim McMorries of Nacogdoches, Texas.
McMorries has, shockingly, continued to practice medicine — in obstetrics, gynecology, and infertility, no less — since the news broke several years ago about his insemination activities with a number of his patients. One of the resulting offspring, Eve Wiley, tells the made-for-TV-movie story of discovering that she was donor-conceived as a teenager. Her mother helped her contact the sperm bank from which Wiley’s parents chose Donor 106, and Wiley and the donor met and established a father-daughter relationship over the next 13 years. Only when one of Wiley’s own children had medical issues did she DNA test herself for more information. That’s when she found out that her mother’s doctor, McMorries, had not, in fact, used the sperm of Donor 106, as Wiley’s parents’ requested, but instead used his own sperm.