..reading the sentence because it didn t make sense. like, how is that possible? i mean, he s my mom s doctor. there s no way that s a thing, right? like, that s not. that s not a thing. at the time that most of these inseminations took place, nothing about what the doctors did was criminal, and holding them accountable today is difficult for several reasons, including statutes of limitation, destruction of evidence such as medical records and laws regarding consent not directly matching the doctor s conduct in each case. when he became a doctor, he took an oath to do no harm. and i feel like he completely disregarded that 100%. and, yeah, my mom s 0k. she s not hurt physically. right? but if he thought what he was doing was absolutely 0k and ethical, he should have had that conversation with all of our moms. but he didn t.
in the late 1970s and 1980s, there was even less regulation than we have today. and i think you have to take a look at what culturally reproductive technology was like back then. so, reproductive technology has always sort of been stigmatised. it was always done in secret. given that secrecy and stigma, it s no wonder that there was very little regulation. today, it s not so stigmatised. and it s estimated that more than 12% of women between the ages of 15 and 49 have received some kind of fertility treatment. my name isjessica stavena and i was conceived via artificial insemination with a donor. my mom has always been, you know, very honest and very candid with me my entire life. i m the type of personl that i want her to know who she is, and who her family is and who she is. and so i knew all along that if i had another child doing i the artificial inseminations
candid with me my entire life. i m the type of personl that i want her to know who she is, and who her family is and who she is. and so i knew all along that if i had another child doing i the artificial inseminations with anonymous donor- sperm, that i would tell her the story. . i would not want her- growing up not knowing it. i told my story to everybody because ijust thought it was so incredible, and to me, that made me feel even more wanted by my mom. even in elementary school, jessica wrote about her experience. when i started this book, that s where i started it. dr mcmorries started helping my mother in august 1984. from that date untiljune 2nd, 1986, my mother went through a lot of pain, disappointments and travelled many miles. her trip back to the doctor onjuly12th, 1986 made it all worthwhile. dr mcmorries did a pregnancy test that showed positive,
dr kim mcmorries. and so i said, yes. and she s like, well, i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but he s also our biological father. i couldn t even finish. ..reading the sentence because it didn t make sense. like, how is that possible? i mean, he s my mom s doctor. there s no way that s a thing, right? like, that s not. that s not a thing. at the time that most of these inseminations took place, nothing about what the doctors did was criminal, and holding them accountable today is difficult for several reasons, including statutes of limitation, destruction of evidence such as medical records and laws regarding consent not directly matching the doctor s conduct in each case. when he became a doctor, he took an oath to do no harm. and i feel like he completely disregarded that 100%. and, yeah, my mom s 0k.
so, reproductive technology has always, sort of, been stigmatised. it was always done in secret. given that secrecy and stigma, it s no wonder that there was very little regulation. today, it s not so stigmatised. and it s estimated that more than 12% of women between the ages of 15 and 49 have received some kind of fertility treatment. my name isjessica stavena and i was conceived via artificial insemination with a donor. my mom has always been, you know, very honest and very candid with me my entire life. i m the type of personl that i want her to know who she is, and who her family is and who she is. and so i knew all along that if i had another child doing i the artificial inseminations with anonymous donor- sperm, that i would tell her the story. . i would not want her- growing up not knowing it. i told my story to everybody because ijust thought it was so incredible, and to me, that made me feel even more wanted by my mom.