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Fertility doctor and Mormon church leader sued for using own sperm to impregnate IVF patient

Source: DignityMemorial.com

A fertility doctor has been accused by twins of using his own sperm to get their mother pregnant using IVF, and they have sued his family’s estate for fertility fraud.

Allison Vece and Kevin Phelps say that Dr Joseph Plautz impregnated their mother, Gayle Fedele, with his sperm around June 1984 in Clark County, Nevada.

According to the lawsuit filed in the county district court last month, but could not do so naturally due to her husband’s vasectomy.

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