A Canadian fertility doctor's license was revoked Tuesday for having used the wrong sperm, including his own, to inseminate patients over decades. Bernard Norman Barwin's behavior was deemed "appalling" and "reprehensible" by a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
Ottawa - A Canadian fertility doctor's license was revoked Tuesday for having used the wrong sperm, including his own, to inseminate patients over decades.
"You betrayed trust and by your actions deeply affected individuals and their families and caused irreparable damage that will span generations," the medical regulator said in its decision.Barwin had already given up his medical license in 2014 after being disciplined in a prior case for artificially inseminating three women with the wrong sperm, which he had blamed at the time on simple errors.
Barwin is also facing a lawsuit alleging 50-100 births with the wrong sperm, including 11 cases in which he used his own. Rebecca Dixon said she learned three years ago at age 25 that Barwin was her biological father, telling the hearing that she felt"repulsed" and"contaminated.""For a while I felt dissociated with my own face, as if the person looking at back at me in the mirror wasn't fully me anymore."Her father, while struggling with major health issues,"had to learn to accept that the daughter he had raised and loved was not in fact his biological child," she said.
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