The Fertility Industry's Dirty Secrets: Profits First, Children Last
Sperm donors with cancer genes & a fertility doctor stealing embryos and it could be far worse than we even know.
The fertility industry’s failures are not isolated accidents.
They reflect a deeper, systemic disregard for children’s rights. In Europe, a sperm donor unknowingly carried a rare, cancer-causing TP53 gene. His sperm was used to create at least 67 children. Ten of those children have already developed cancer, and more than 20 others carry the mutation. There are still no universal limits on how many children one donor can father, no required background checks, and no consistent oversight. Children are conceived through a process that treats them as products to be manufactured, not people to be protected.
There is a reason you are supposed to actually know and commit your life to the people with whom you make babies. But the fertility industry ignores this basic truth.
These children are not just separated from a biological parent. Many are now battling life-threatening illnesses, conceived in a system where adult desire outweighs child safety.
If this sounds like a rare anomaly, it is not.
Consider the shocking UC Irvine fertility scandal from the 1990s. Dr. Jose Balmaceda and other doctors stole eggs and embryos from women without consent and implanted them in other women. At least 15 children were born to the wrong mothers. One tweet recently pointed out, "[Actor] Pedro Pascal’s dad stole eggs and embryos from patients of the fertility clinic he worked for and implanted them in other women leading to the births of 15 children by the wrong mothers and then had to flee the country and was a fugitive for 15 years and no one talks about it."
Why does no one talk about it? Because, as I have said before, acknowledging it would mean confronting just how corrupt the IVF industry truly is at its core.
Balmaceda fled to Chile and only returned decades later. He is now pleading guilty, not for violating parental rights or stealing human embryos, but for tax evasion related to unreported clinic income. The human damage was never criminalized. Over 150 lawsuits followed, resulting in more than 27 million dollars in settlements paid by UC Irvine.
The truth is clear.
As long as we allow the fertility industry to serve adult preferences instead of protecting children, abuses like these will continue. The victims are real. Silence is not compassion. It is complicity.