LOL WUTMy body my choice, keep your laws out of my reproductive system! - Wait, not like that! Woman suing sperm donor for being prolific.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

A Dutch musician is facing court in a bid to get him to stop his 'obsessive' sperm donating amid claims he has fathered hundreds of children around the world.

Jonathan Jacob Meijer, 41, has misled hundreds of women all over the world and may have fathered nearly 550 children, according to the Donorkind Foundation, which is suing him.

Mr Meijer, from The Hague, Netherlands, was blacklisted in 2017 after the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology warned he had fathered 102 children via ten different clinics in the Netherlands.

But he continued to donate abroad in Denmark and Ukraine and offered his services through websites and social media, according to the Dutch news website AD.

Eva, the Dutch woman at the centre of the court case, had a child by Mr Meijer in 2018 and said it made her feel 'sick to her stomach' that he had fathered so many children.

She said: 'If I had known he had already fathered more than 100 children I would never have chosen him.

'If I think about the consequences this could have for my child I am sick to my stomach.

'Many mothers have told him he needs to stop, but nothing helps. So going to court is the only option I have to protect my child.'

Eva and the Donorkind Foundation want to stop Mr Meijer donating and to find out exactly which clinics he has donated sperm to.

They have accused Mr Meijer of 'lying' to hundreds of women about the number of children he has fathered.

Eva also wants all his sperm still in storage to be destroyed, unless it has been reserved for a woman who already has one of his children.

Ties van der Meer, the foundation's chairman, said: 'We are taking action against this man because national government is doing nothing.

'He has a global reach via internet and he does business with large, international sperm banks.'

Donorkind's lawyer Mark de Hek said: 'This behavior is dangerous for the mental well-being and health of donor children. By preferring his reproductive urge, the donor is acting unlawfully.

'In addition, he violates the agreements with the clinics and with the prospective parents, because they trusted his promise that he would father a maximum of 25 children.'

[–]Haylstorm 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Imagine being the kid that needs genetic testing with your partner just in case you had the same sperm donor lol. That's an absolutely insane number of kids.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Literally, Iceland. Although they have an app so you can check that you’re not hitting on your sister at the bar.

[–]Haylstorm 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Seriously though, imagine meeting a wife in another country and she's your half sister. At least Iceland is aware of it haha.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I had a girl in my class a few years ago who suffered from the severe effects of consanguineous marriage. Severe learning difficulties and physical problems. Not at all a rare occurrence in people from rural Pakistan and Afghanistan where keeping property within the family, and therefore marrying within the family, has been going on for generations. A study within the Pakistani community in Bradford, England found that that community accounted for something like one in six of all birth defects in the country.

[–]Haylstorm 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Poor girl.

Genuinely crazy how high it is in that community, I know at one point they were considering offering genetic testing to that group to try and eliminate any issues beforehand but I'm not sure how far that got. Really hope they can go forwards with it and prevent a lot of pain.