Sperm bank in US sued after woman given donor sperm from wrong man
A woman in America is suing a sperm bank after she became pregnant with sperm donated by a black man instead of a white man as she had intended.
A woman in America is suing a sperm bank after she became pregnant with sperm donated by a black man instead of a white man as she had intended.
The woman is seeking damages and wants to ensure the sperm bank doesn't make a similar mistake again.
Within days of her wedding in New York, Jennifer Cramblett had become pregnant with the donor sperm.
In April 2012, five months into her pregnancy, Cramblett, 36, called Midwest Sperm Bank outside Chicago to reserve sperm from the same donor in the hope that her partner Amanda Zinkon, 29, would also have a child.
That's when Cramblett learned from a sperm bank employee that she had been inseminated with sperm from the wrong donor, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday against Midwest Sperm Bank in Illinois.
Cramblett said they had chosen sperm from a man known as No. 380, a white donor. The sperm used for insemination came from No. 330, a black donor, she said.
"How could they make a mistake that was so personal?" Cramblett said.