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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2021
1 Complaint at 8, Richards v. Klein, 2020 WL 5576670 (N.D. Cal. 2020) (No.4:20-cv06478).
2 Id. at 10.
3 Id. at 12 (“Artificial insemination involves a physician inserting sperm into a woman’s uterus, through her vagina, to facilitate pregnancy”).
4 Id. at 11.
5 Id. 13.
6 Id. at 14.
7 Id.
8 Id.
9 Id.
10 Id.
11 Id.
12 Id.
13 Id.
14 Id. at 15-16.
15 Id. at 17.
16 Id. at 18.
17 Id.
18 Id.
19 Id. at. 22.
20 Id. at 22.
21 Id.
22 Id.
23 Id.
24 Id. at 23.
25 Id. at 24.
26 Id. at 25.
27 Id.
28 Id. at 26.
29 Id.
30 Id. at 27.
31 Id. at 28.
32 Id.
33 Id. at 29.
34 Id. at 30.
35 Id. at 27.
36 Id. at 41, 47.
37 Id. at 43-44.
38 Id. at 3.
39 Id. at 33, 93.
40 Id. at 54.
41 Id. at 34.
42 Id. at 36.
43 Id.
44 Id.
45 Id. at 38.
46 Id. at 37 (Complaint alleges that Ms. Richards was not Dr. Kiken’s only victim. Dr. Kiken allegedly provided fertility treatment to the mother of Ms. Richards’ children’s half-brother. He allegedly told the other mother the same thing about using donor sperm from a medical student or medical intern and promised that the donor would be in excellent health and would be medically clear).
47 Id. at 39.
48 Id. at 14.
49 See Ashby v. Gerald Mortimer, No. 4:18-cv-00143-DCN, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21622 (D. Idaho Feb. 5, 2020), see Rousseau v. Coates, No. 2:18-cv-00205, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 118726 (D. Vt. July 17, 2019), see also Sarah Zhang, The Fertility Doctor’s Secret, THE ATLANTIC (Apr., 2019), https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/fertilitydoctor-donald-cline-secret-children/583249/ [https://perma.cc/32D7-QEGU].
50 Fox, Dov, Fertility Fraud, Legal Firsts, and Medical Ethics, 134 OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY 918, 918.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
51 Madeira, Jody Lynee, Uncommon Misconceptions: Holding Physicians Accountable for Insemination Fraud, 37 L. & INEQ. 45, 53.Google Scholar
52 See Antonio Regalado, More than 26 million people have taken an at-home ancestry test, MIT TECH. REV., (Feb. 11, 2019), https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/11/103446/more-than-26-million-people-have-taken-an-at-home-ancestry-test [https://perma.cc/MJ22-8Q7K].
53 Dunn, Cheyenne, Fertility Fraud and Proposal for Florida Legislation, 8 CHILD & FAMILY L. J. 133, 141 (2020).Google Scholar
54 Id. at 141 (citing CAL. PENAL CODE § 367g (Deering 2020); IND. CODE ANN. § 34-24-5-2 (LexisNexis 2019); TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 22.011 (West 2019)).
55 IND. CODE ANN. § 34-24-5-2; Adam Wren, Donald Cline: The Fertility Doctor Accused of Fraud, INDIANAPOLIS MONTHLY, (May 15, 2019), https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/longform/the-immaculate-deception [https://perma.cc/5XKX-RQAR].
56 Wren, supra note55.
57 Zhang, supra note 49.
58 Dunn, supra note 53, at 156 (citing Ind. Code Ann. § 34-24-5-2).
59 Id. at 157 (citing Ind. Code Ann. § 34-24-5-2).
60 Id. at 157-8 (citing Ind. Code Ann. § 34-11-2-15(b)(1)-(2)).
61 Madeira, supra note 53, at 158 (citing Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 22.011(b)(12) (West 2019); see also Adam Liptak, When Dad Turns Out to Be the Fertility Doctor, N.Y. TIMES (Dec. 11, 2019), https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/magazine/fertility-fraud-sperm.html [https://perma.cc/9557-28SJ].
62 2019 Tex. Gen. Laws 436; see also Robert T. Garrett, Dallas woman’s push to make fertility fraud a crime results in new law on the books in Texas, Dallas Morning News (June 5, 2019), https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/06/05/dallas-woman-s-push-to-make-fertility-fraud-a-crime-results-in-new-law-on-the-books-in-texas/ [https://perma.cc/GC2Z-GBUG].
63 2019 Tex. Gen. Laws 436.
64 Id.
65 Cal. Penal Code § 367g.
66 2020 Cal. Legis. Serv. ch. 244 (West).
67 Id.
68 2019 Ind. Acts 215.
69 Dunn, supra note 53, at 152 (quoting Zhang, supra note 49).
70 Madeira, supra note 51, at 52-53.
71 Dunn, supra note 50, at 150.
72 See Madeira, supra note 51, at 46, 51.
