It was just a normal afternoon and I was watching some donor kid stuff on YouTube and then I came across the trailer of the movie: The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story a.k.a. Seeds of Deception (1994).
After seeing the trailer for this movie, I thought it was so interesting that I looked up the movie. The story sounded just like the story of Jan Karbaat, among others, and many doctors. The photo wall in the film made me think of Jan Karbaat, among others.
Among other things, Karbaat is known to ask for photos from the parents of the children. Many he probably has kept his private collection. To keep track of how many children he has fathered. In one of the cases I know of a descendant of Karbaat who wrote that her donor had asked for a photo. At that time she did not yet know that Jan Karbaat had used his semen to conceive her. Will Jan Karbaat only go to the parents of whom he was sure they had asked a child of him if they wanted to send photos or was everyone asked?
That is unknown to me. But Jan Karbaat has since passed away. It will not surprise me if there is still stuff hidden in the house where he lived. And that there are still copies of information in his house in the house while the donor data artificial fertilization foundation had collected the entire archive from Karbaat. But let's move on to info about the movie.
The Movie: The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story a.k.a. Seeds of Deception
I thought this movie might be fiction. But it turns out to be a true story. During his studies, in the early 1960s, Cecil was top of the class and considered a child prodigy. In the same decade, he invented amniocentesis. After this, he set up a clinic specialized in helping couples who had problems having children. Dr. Jacobson was described by the patients as a caring and kind man who seemed reassuring. He told the patients that he did not use frozen sperm, but rather fresh sperm, it couldn't be fresher, because he inseminated a number of women (about 75) with his own sperm. That he had 'produced' himself about 5 minutes before the artificial insemination. He told the patients that they were anonymous donors. If the parents-to-be had wishes, such as that the child should be like the parent, Jacobson said, that's okay. For example, the parents wanted a child with a tinted skin who was sporty, but they had a pale, chubby child with poor eyesight.
He also tricked people into saying that women were pregnant when they weren't in order to make money from expensive injections. She later stated that they had miscarried. This always happened in the fifteenth week of pregnancy. He called the phenomenon "resorption": the human body would break down the fetus by itself. In 1988, a woman, who had already been two-time false pregnancies, went to another gynecologist in the area to avoid having a miscarriage this time too.
However, the doctor in question told her that she was not pregnant and had not been in the recent past. When a second woman with the same story also came to the same doctor, the doctor advised the women to hire a lawyer. The news also became known on television channel NBC, where a female reporter became involved in Jacobson's practices. It was suspected that the women believed they were pregnant thanks to injections of the hormone HCG. That hormone is automatically produced by the body during pregnancies. The women had to be injected with this hormone three times a week, according to Jacobson. The NBC did not trust the business.
The female reporter's chief sacrificed to have HCG injected. And the suspicions turned out to be correct. According to a pregnancy test, the man was two months pregnant ... In total, Jacobson would have cheated 53 women with false pregnancies. For this he was expelled from his profession.
There was a lawsuit in 1989. However, Jacobson was still strongly supported by women who gave birth to a child thanks to his pregnancy treatments. In 1989, however, it was revealed that Jacobson had only used his own sperm in the artificial insemination. As a result, the doctor has about 75 children walking around in the vicinity of his practice in Vienna, Utah. Because the children spend a lot of time together and with Dr. Jacobson thus gradually came to light as he himself was the sperm donor.
In 1991 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and expelled from his profession as a doctor. The fact remains that he committed fraud, lied to patients and abused his position. This is not satisfactory for the families affected, they feel 'cheated for life'. Conscious children cannot have intimate relationships with me
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