Sperm Donor Sues After Ancestry.com Reveals He Has 12 More Offspring Than Promised

When an Oregon medical student was asked to donate sperm in 1989, he was promised that only five offspring would be born — all on the other side of the country — according to a lawsuit alleging a clinic violated the agreement by allowing the birth of at least 17 babies, among other alleged violations.

Now a doctor, Bryce Cleary claims in his $5.25 million lawsuit that Oregon Health & Science University didn’t adhere to a stipulation that his sperm could only be used by women living on the East Coast. The result, the lawsuit says: Most, if not all, of the 17 were born in Oregon, and some of the children went to the same schools, church or social functions as their half-siblings without knowing they were related.

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I can see it now - in 25 years a couple gets married and after returning from their honeymoon, submits their DNA so they can be entered into a government database in order to draw their monthly food and fuel rations, only to find out that the best lay of their life came from their half sibling.