They donated sperm in the name of scientific research. But more than 40 years later, they discovered they were fathers. Public television Svt. This also happened to some Swedish soldiers, as an investigation by .
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Swedes serving in the army in Uppsala (a city north of Stockholm) were invited to donate their sperm to the city’s university hospital to contribute to scientific research in exchange for 50 Swedish kroner. At least 242 people participated in the program, thinking that their sperm would be examined by the university’s genetic experts. No one would have imagined that seminal fluid would be used to inseminate women, nor would they have consented to it.
Svt journalists discovered that sperm was used for private activities by the late professor Carl Gemzell, a pioneer of reproductive medicine and one of the first to apply hormonal therapy for in vitro fertilization. Gemzell is alleged to have impregnated at least five women with the sperm of three soldiers. DNA tests revealed that one of them was the father of at least three daughters.
This year SVT uncovered a case of sperm theft that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s at the Halmstad hospital in southern Sweden. The doctor involved in this case was part of Professor Gemzell’s research group. The European Court of Justice launched an investigation into this case.
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