Kayla Suprynowicz and Reilly Flaherty were surprised to learn after genetic testing, that instead of northern European heritage, they were instead blessed with DNA from Pakistani, Northern Indian and Central Asian ancestry. Apparently, the doctor who provided their separate mothers with fertilization treatments also provided his own sperm as the donor.
This was contrary to what their parents understood to be taking place during the treatments. They filed lawsuits in 2021 against Dr. Narendra Tohan, who still practices with restrictions, in Connecticut. Their original suit was dismissed by a Superior Court judge who asserted that their claim for negligence was really a suit for “wrongful life,” which is not currently recognized in Connecticut jurisprudence. It is a relatively new legal concept “that argues a person’s birth or existence is the damage that deserves compensation.”
The women have now appealed to the Connecticut Supreme Court, stating that they believe their claims of negligence against the doctor do not amount to “wrongful life” claims, and they also want the Court to “consider whether it should allow wrongful life claims to be brought in Connecticut in the future,” according to the Hartford Courant.
“Wrongful birth” or “wrongful life” claims are viewed as highly controversial. Only three states currently permit such causes of action and only when the person has been born with debilitating and life-altering injuries.
One such state, Washington, has even awarded “extraordinary” damages to compensate parents for a lifetime of medical expenses. Alternatively, in 2021, the abortion-friendly Kansas Supreme Court banned such lawsuits. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt hailed the decision at the time by stating, “The birth of a child should be cause for celebration, not for the law to award damages because the child was ‘wrongfully’ born,” reported Live Action News.
Serial and subversive sperm donation is facilitated by a largely unregulated and profit-driven fertility industry. Major scandals around the world have been documented with thousands of children begotten by dozens of unscrupulous men. Many women and children are appalled when they realize who was involved with the conception and how. Policymakers are also fearful about the dangers of incest from lack of record keeping and unnatural selection of one person fathering so many individuals.
According to one Harvard Medical School study, 62% of children born after being conceived through donor technologies consider it to be immoral and unethical, and the grown children experienced “significant distress” upon learning of their unnatural conception.
