A BRITISH scientist may have fathered 600 children after making donations to a fertility programme he ran with his wife.
And one of his biological children has suggested the number may even be as high as ONE THOUSAND.
Bertold Wiesner - who was born in Austria - ran the Barton Clinic in London which helped more than 1,500 women conceive.
Barry Stevens, a film-maker from Canada, was concieved using Wiesner's donated sperm and said the number could be much higher.
He said last night: "He was the one that found the donors so it's possible he didn't tell his wife and she believed the donations were coming from a lot of different men."
Wiesner ran the controversial clinic with his wife Mary - until he died in 1972. Research shows he regularly made donations from the early 1940s until the mid-1960s.
... Last year it emerged that one anonymous American sperm donor had fathered more than 150 children.
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Sickening. I wonder how many brothers and sisters are now married to each other and having children. There are limits on dog breeders but not on human breeders. Why is that?
Incidentally, Barry Stevens is one of the donor-conceived adults that appears in the excellent film Anonymous Father's Day. Watch it if you haven't already.
I think it's time to regulate the fertility industry.
I agree with both of you. If these men had to pay child support for these children they wouldn't be doing what there doing.