醫(yī)生使用自己的精子后獲得了875萬美元的賠償金

　　$8.75m awarded in damages after doctor used his own sperm

　　在民事訴訟之后，科羅拉多州的陪審團命令一名在治療患者時使用自己的精子的醫(yī)生支付875萬美元的賠償金。

　　約翰·瓊斯博士和西科羅拉多州婦女保健診所被勒令向謝麗爾·埃蒙斯和她的兩個女兒瑪雅·埃蒙斯-博林和塔尼·斯科特支付這筆錢，這些索賠包括醫(yī)療過失、缺乏知情同意、欺詐和極端行為。婦科醫(yī)生的其他前患者也指責瓊斯博士以這種方式使用自己的精子來生17個孩子，盡管沒有同意這樣做（見BioNews 1033）。

　　他的許多生物學后*在進行在線DNA測試后發(fā)現(xiàn)了這一事實。Emmons-Boring告訴《紐約時報》，在她接受Ancestry.com測試后，一名自稱是她同父異母兄弟姐妹的婦女聯(lián)系她后，她發(fā)現(xiàn)自己是使用瓊斯博士的精子受孕的。她說她處理了很多內(nèi)疚，并說：“因為我參加了那次考試，這讓很多人的生活發(fā)生了翻天覆地的變化。”

　　瓊斯博士的病人被告知他們將接受醫(yī)生或醫(yī)學生的捐贈，用于他們的生育治療，瓊斯博士和他的法律團隊在之前的法庭案件中辯稱：“所有母親都要求匿名捐贈，所有母親們收到了匿名捐款。

　　然而，雖然他在1970年*和80年*這樣做時將自己的精子用于患者身上并不違法，但他的案件導致科羅拉多州在2020年通過了一項法律，該法律禁止醫(yī)療保健提供者“故意使用來自捐贈者的配子”而沒有患者的同意。瓊斯博士在被指控對病人使用自己的精子后幾天內(nèi)放棄了他的執(zhí)照。

　　在上周公布的立法草案之后，該州現(xiàn)在準備成為第一個禁止匿名精子和*子捐贈并限制每個捐贈者可以進行的捐贈數(shù)量的州。該法案和科羅拉多州2020年法案的發(fā)起人、州*表克里·蒂珀(Kerry Tipper)說：“匿名承諾不再是我們可以信守的承諾。”如果該法案獲得通過，這將是美國第一個這樣做的州。

　　相信瓊斯博士在生育治療期間使用自己的精子的另外五個家庭在審判前庭外和解，另外兩起糾紛目前正在進行中。

　　A Colorado-based jury has ordered a doctor who used his own sperm when treating a patient to pay$8.75m in damages,following a civil lawsuit.

　　Dr John Jones and the Women's Health Care of Western Colorado clinic were ordered to pay the money to Cheryl Emmons and her two daughters Maia Emmons-Boring and Tahnee Scott over several claims including medical negligence,lack of informed consent,fraud,and extreme conduct.Other former patients of the gynaecologist have also accused Dr Jones of using his own sperm to father 17 children this way,despite a lack of consent to do this(see BioNews 1033).

　　Many of his biological offspring discovered the fact after taking online DNA tests.Emmons-Boring told the New York Times she discovered that she had been conceived using Dr Jones sperm after she was contacted by a woman claiming to be her half-sibling after she took an Ancestry.com test.She said she dealt with a lot of guilt and said:'It's turned so many lives upside down because I took that test.'

　　Patients of Dr Jones had been told they would receive a donation from either a doctor or a medical student for their fertility treatment and Dr Jones'and his legal team have argued in previous court cases that:'all mothers asked for anonymous donation,and all mothers received anonymous donation.'

　　However,while using his own sperm on patients was not illegal when he did this in the 1970s and 80s,his case led to the state of Colorado passing a law in 2020 which outlawed a health care provider'knowingly using gametes'from a donor without a patient's consent.Dr Jones gave up his licence within days of being accused of using his own sperm on patients.

　　The state is now poised to become the first state to ban anonymous sperm and egg donations and limit the number of donations each donor can make,following the publication of draft legislation last week.'The promise of anonymity is not a promise that we can keep anymore,'said state representative Kerry Tipper,a sponsor of this bill and the 2020 bill in Colorado.It would be the first state in the USA to do so if the bill is passed.

　　Five other families who believe Dr Jones used his own sperm during fertility treatment settled out of court prior to trial and another two disputes are currently ongoing.