Our Father (2022)

November 17, 2022 9:43 AM

After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.

Jacoba Ballard decided to take a DNA test one day, in hopes of finding one or two half-siblings with the same sperm donor. "Growing up, I felt different," she says in the documentary's trailer. But when she found seven matches, she realized that she had stumbled across a major discovery: a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.

As of this post, this film is available on Netflix (U.S.).

posted by hydra77 (2 comments total)

Previously on the blue.
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:34 AM on November 18, 2022 [1 favorite]

Thanks for that link.

Watching the documentary just gave me such dread and sympathy for the women and for their children. Learning they were related to that man; learning his potential/theoretical reasons for doing what he did; the power he had, and then his pleas for leniency so that the media coverage didn't hurt his family.

Christ what an asshole.

Then learning that what he did wasn't a crime; learning that it's only because of those women that this is now a crime in Indiana; learning that it's *still* not a federal crime.
posted by hydra77 at 12:56 PM on November 18, 2022