“Our Father,” a new Netflix documentary, tells the story of Donald Cline, an Indiana fertility specialist who used his own genetic material to inseminate his unwitting patients and was never charged.

Following the scandal’s exposure, Indiana lawmakers passed new laws in 2019 that gives victims of fertility fraud legal recourse.

Prior to the passage of this legislation, Indiana lacked a specific law addressing fertility fraud.

What did Dr. Donald Cline do?

Our Father tells the story of Indianapolis doctor Donald Cline, who used his own sperm to impregnate dozens of naïve women seeking fertility therapy over the period of several years.

Is Dr. Donald Cline charged?

While Dr. Donald was never prosecuted as a crime, victims and medical professionals increasingly consider such behaviors to be negligence, fraud, and sexual assault.

Cline was not questioned for the video because his religious beliefs and associations, according to victims, verge on eugenics.

Misrepresentation in relation to a medical procedure or human reproductive material is a Level 6 felony in Indiana.

It also allows victims to bring a civil complaint against a doctor within five years of learning they’ve been the victim of fertility fraud or the defendant’s confession.

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