Article 5B44X Baby God: how DNA testing uncovered a shocking web of fertility fraud

Baby God: how DNA testing uncovered a shocking web of fertility fraud

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Adrian Horton
from World news | The Guardian on (#5B44X)

Quincy Fortier was once Nevada's physician of the year. As unspooled in a new documentary, he had a dark secret: dozens of children fraudulently fathered through his fertility clinic

At 22, Cathy Holm was newly married, settling into a new home in Las Vegas, Nevada, and struggling to start a family. It was the early 1960s, and infertility was a largely taboo topic; devoid of options, she looked up a doctor listed as a fertility specialist" in the phonebook. Dr Quincy Fortier, a respected obstetrician who opened Sin City's first women's hospital, had a record of helping couples achieve a viable pregnancy, and promised to inseminate Holm with a sample of her husband's sperm.

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