In 1991, Jeanine and John "Mike" Harvey had undergone an insemination procedure at Summa Health System with Dr. Nicholas Spirtos, which was intended to fertilize the wife’s egg with the husband’s sperm to help conceive a child.
According to a statement released by the attorneys for the family at the law firm Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise, there was a "clearly stated goal of having a child who was genetically related to both of them." Jeanine became pregnant and gave birth to a baby girl, Jessica Harvey Galloway.
Don't go digging up shit if there is a chance you won't like the smell
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" It’s taken every ounce of my power to remain strong for myself and my family as we try to move forward."
ReplyDeleteGimme a freakin break. Nobody died. You got a beautiful daughter. Get on with life.
Agreed. Raise her and love her. Be happy with your gift.
Delete@A9racer
DeleteYes,they got a beautiful daughter.
And her father learned that his genetic legacy will die with him. Instead of passing his genes to the daughter he loves so much, he was cuckolded by an incompetent physician's stupidity and malpractice. So yes, he got a beautiful daughter, and he clearly, and rightly doesn't love her any less now than before. But he and his wife paid thousands for the chance to give life to a child that shared both of their genes. Not a child that shared the wife's genes and those of some other guy they didn't know, and had never met. In one night, he went from being a biological father who had raised his biological daughter...to an adoptive father who raised his wife's biological daughter, a daughter who has no genetic link to him whatsoever. And his wife learned that, instead of creating, and carrying a life within her womb that shared her genes, and those of her beloved...she created life with her genes and those of a complete stranger. And the daughter just learned that her father is not her biological parent, that half her genes came from someone she never met or knew. He's still her father, but she doesn't share his blood and genes. His genetic material wasn't even involved in creating her. He was her father, but he didn't give her life, as the expression goes.
She's still his beloved daughter, but is it really so impossible for y'all to grasp why this might be just the tiniest bit of a painful revelation for the family?
PS: Kenny, they *did* "raise her and love her"! And they're going to continue doing so. Nothing in the statement A9racer is objecting to indicated otherwise. The mother just expressed that this new information has been a painful shock for all of them.
Read the article. No, nobody thinks mom was "stepping out". The suggestion is ungentlemanly and unworthy. The long-married couple had a medically assisted pregnancy, and the DNA test uncovered a failure to do what was directed. Likely accidental, perhaps intentional. The doc and hospital screwed up, and at the least (and perhaps at most) owe the couple an apology.
ReplyDeleteIs this your first day on my site? My captions tend to be sarcastic and humorous at times to draw people to the article.
DeleteAnd NOBODY accuses me of being a gentleman, okay?
Love the last line in the response.
DeleteLmfao, tell em wire cutter 🤣
DeleteJD
"How cool – we thought – would it be to learn if we had family in the countries we’d be visiting. Maybe we could connect with our distant relatives."
ReplyDeleteBecause...those DNA kits come back with a list of addresses of possible relatives?
I've read that some tests are set up to allow you to leave contact information and the testing company can pass on your information to likely relatives
DeleteJD
Yep, they provide you a family tree based on others who have used their service.
DeleteA few years back......wasn't there a news story.....
ReplyDeleteabout an artificial insemination doctor that......
was using his sperm for all his procedures.....????
Ed357
You went to "Dr Nick", what did you expect to happen?
ReplyDeleteNo they come back with regions where others with the same markers dominate suggesting family ties. From there (due to families of the past having a tendency to "base" tribally) it's fairly easy to extrapolate connections. I very easily found my way back to a very specific peninsula in southern Ireland and my people were early arrivals here (pre-revolution). There are lots of folks doing there own histories and the database suggests links to publicly matching info created by others, making it possible to link with the third cousin twice removed living in another country.
ReplyDeleteCompanies like 23 and me have the ability to totally disrupt the family unit.
ReplyDeleteLong past affairs and illegitimate children pop out of the information packets for all to see.
Can you imagine how a guy would feel after finding out that the son or daughter he thought was his son turns out to be the product of a cheating wife ?
Or having to pay child support for him/her to a cheating whore of a ex wife ?
Years of child support, alimony, loss of your home, paying their insurance and costs while the cheating ex lives as good as if not better than when with her husband.
Men are told to be a man and suck it up but nothing happens to the whore......
JD
LEO / US Govt use those DNA databases, will never send in a sample.
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side of DNA testing, I was able to identify the great grandfather who married my great grandmother using an alias and who later abandoned her and my grandfather. On the downside, it was quite a shock to his other family to find out he was lying scum. (They thought he'd died in a logging accident, not that he'd abandoned that wife too.)
ReplyDeleteIn my case, son and d-i-l did a 23 and me. My dad at one time said his mother was full-blood Cherokee. My father-in-law claimed both of my son's running prowess was the result of his "Indian blood". The results came back as my kid being White-Bread Western European as it's possible to be.
DeleteI larfed.
rickn8or - Oral history in my family says there's a shitload of Indian blood in me too but what little documentation on my family I've seen, I'm a straight up White Boy. There are no Indians in my family's census records, nothing like that. I knew both of my great grandparents and they were all White, and the portraits they had of their parents showed they were White too.
DeleteWhat's funny is that when I was in my teens, I could've passed for n Indian. I looked like I came straight off the reservation.
It’s a wise child that knows his own father.
Delete@Crawfisher: Exactly. We're on the same page.
ReplyDelete@Ed357: I think there are several (confirmed) stories about fertility docs using their own sperm.
More generally, multigenerational community-based cohort studies (for medical study of not only sick patients, but just ordinary people going about their lives) have shown about 5% rate of "nonpaternity" based on DNA testing. (The DNA is not for checking parentage, it's for trying to identify genetic markers that make a person more susceptible to various diseases; the parentage stuff is an incidental finding.)
I think it may be 23 and me which helps you hook up with relatives you didn’t know about. One of my cousins (our dads are brothers) found a second cousin she knew nothing about. In the course of getting to know her she found out my dad( her favorite uncle) was close friends with that whole family but her dad had no contact.
ReplyDeleteThe other fun possibility not explored in the article is that some states automatically task the biological father with child support in paternity cases.
ReplyDeleteOops.
John in Indy
All DNA testing kits are diagnosed by companies that are owned by the Chinese. The CCP are collecting human DNA data and using it to refine their biological warfare. There I said it.
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