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Iowa man discovers his mother s doctor was his biological father nearly 50 years after artificial insemination Courtney Crowder, Des Moines Register There s part of me that I don t really know : Iowa man learns he s a victim of fertility fraud
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He was not Mark s biological father and he wasn t sure who was.
Mark, 55, knew he d been conceived through artificial insemination performed by the town doctor, but he d figured his parents supplied the materials.
Bald head. Wide nose. Ears that stuck out a bit. Full lips. Dimples.
The man he’d never really known, but
the face he remembered from his own mirror.
He was not Mark s biological father and he wasn t sure who was.
Mark had always known he d been conceived through artificial insemination performed by the town doctor, but he d figured his parents supplied the materials.
A few days after his dad s confession, Mark pulled up the doctor’s obituary, wanting to put a face to the hunch stalking his thoughts.
Bald head. Wide nose. Ears that stuck out a bit. Full lips. Dimples.
The man he’d never known, but
the face he remembered from his own mirror.
And the name matched the doctor’s signature on his birth certificate: Dr. Sidney Yugend.
For the first 47 years of his life, Mark Hansen thought he knew who both of his parents were. However, just months before the man he d known as dad all his life passed away, he revealed to Mark that he wasn t his biological father. And he told Mark he didn t know who was.
As you can imagine, it was a stunning revelation to Hansen. He told the Des Moines Register I wondered what I was. If I wasn t my dad s, who was I?
Mark had known for decades that his mom and her husband were struggling to conceive a child and went to his mom s longtime family doctor for fertility help. He had always assumed the mom and dad he d known his entire life were his biological parents. Knowing that wasn t the case, Mark suspected that Dr. Sidney Yugend, his mother s doctor, had artificially inseminated Mark s mother with his own sperm. When Mark pulled up Yugend s obituary online and looked at himself in the mirror, the Des Moines Register reports he knew he was right.