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Test tube infidelity

... who turn up with people who are evidently not their partners; Muslim women inseminated by their sterile husbands’ b*****rs, as their religion mandates; and even what she calls &#034Boris Beckers&#034– women who try to have themselves inseminated with sperm they have collected through oral sex. “Cheating between couples is something that has always happened, and always will,” says López-Teijón. “The only thing we’re concerned about is that we don’t make a mistake. Doctors are not police officers. What happened with Mr X wasn’t an error, there is no legal liability. We’re not here to prevent those kinds of things happening… and we don’t really care,” she concludes. “Even if there is no liability, that was clearly a case of poor practice,” says Esther Farnós. “It’s true that some fraud cannot be avoided, but this one could have been. A sperm sample has consequences in terms of paternity, and it is astonishing that with something so important they never bothered to ask the man to identify himself. The problem is that there are no rules, there are not even any voluntary guidelines, but there are lobbies that have pressured hard to keep these legal loopholes open because it’s good for business.” But Fernando Abellán, a legal consultant with the Spanish Fertility Society, says that clinics have to walk a fine line between “behaving like the police” and “clarifying people’s marital status and identity”. He says there is a danger of over-bureaucratizing the process to deal with ...

... relatively few cases of fraud. Despite denying any responsibility over what her clients do, Dr López Teijón says she has acted to prevent deception. A woman brought in a second sample of semen signed by her husband, because the first was not of sufficient quality. But when the sample was tested, it was clear that it was not from the same man. The clinic called the woman and told her that the sample had been accidentally dropped and that they needed a third sample. The woman never returned. In the case of Mr X, the clinic did not detect the swap because both samples had similar sperm counts. Mr X’s suspicions were aroused when the clinic called him in 2005, precisely at the moment his wife was in Barcelona. “They seemed surprised to find me at home, so when my wife got back I asked her if she had been there with someone else.” She confessed, but said that she had later repented and used her husband’s semen sample, a tale that he believed. Two years later, in 2007, when the couple had divorced, a girlfriend of Mr X suggested he contact the clinic to check that the first sperm sample had been used. The clinic erroneously said yes. “You’ve no idea the amount of irrelevant things we get asked,” says Dr López-Teijon. “The gentleman should have insisted that it was an important question.” Ms Y told the court that her former husband knew she had gone to Barcelona with Mr P, and that she never deceived him. But the judge disagreed, ruling: “Mr X believed what his wife told him and the ...