Family alleges OB-GYN used his own sperm for insemination instead of agreed-upon donor’s

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A 43-year-old man discovered through an ancestry DNA test that he has nine half-siblings, all apparently children of his mother's fertility doctor from the 1980s. Joseph Laedtke's family is now alleging that the OB-GYN used his own sperm for insemination instead of the donor sperm the family had agreed upon. The revelation echoes a pattern of fertility fraud cases that have surfaced over recent decades, exposing how some doctors exploited their access and authority to secretly father children through assisted reproduction.