ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — An upstate New York doctor is accused of using his own sperm to inseminate a woman after telling the prospective parents that the sperm would come from a separate donor, a new lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit alleges Dr. Morris Wortman, a gynecologist in Rochester, told at least one patient he was using a sperm donor, and instead used his his own sperm to inseminate.
The lawsuit was filed after a woman discovered multiple half siblings through over-the-counter DNA testing kits.
According to the lawsuit, Wortman inseminated at least one woman through his Rochester-based private fertility practice, The Center for Menstrual Disorders. The practice is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
According to the plaintiff, Wortman told her parents that the sperm donor was a University of Rochester medical student with a specific ethnic background and no history of health issues. The lawsuit says Wortman required a $50 payment, made out to him, for each insemination attempt.
The lawsuit alleges that the plaintiff’s parents paid Wortman $50 two to three times a month from late 1983 through January 1985. After multiple unsuccessful insemination attempts, the plaintiff’s mother became pregnant with her.
The lawsuit says that Wortman was highly regarded within the plaintiff’s family for helping achieve the “miracle” of pregnancy after the plaintiff’s father suffered an injury that caused fertility issues.
According to the lawsuit, the woman sought the identity of...
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