Hospital workers 'wrongfully inseminated' mother during couple's fertility procedure, leaving their child with 'medical issues' inherited from total stranger, lawsuit says

Oregon infirmary workers "wrongfully inseminated" a pistillate during a fertility process with "foreign sperm" from a alien alternatively of her husband's, resulting successful the commencement of a babe miss who suffers from "medical issues that were inherited" from the biologic father, a suit alleges.

The wife and husband, identified successful their ineligible ailment arsenic C.W. and K.W., respectively, accidental they were "stripped of the unifying enslaved of creating shared life" portion besides being "permanently reminded" that their firstborn kid was a mistake. They are suing Oregon Health and Science University and Providence Health, seeking $17 million in damages.

"C.W. had to carnivore the humiliation, discomfort, and carnal distress of carrying the gestation to word and laboring and delivering a kid conceived owed to the wrongful usage of different male's semen specimen," the ailment blasts. "K.W. was stripped wholly of his biologic fatherhood of the firstborn kid with his wife."

The mates underwent an insemination process astatine OHSU successful 1981 aft being referred to its household readying portion successful Portland. A antheral identified arsenic R.W. besides sought fertility treatments astatine OHSU with his spouse a twelvemonth earlier, with doctors obtaining his sperm and past "wrongfully" utilizing it for C.W. and K.W.'s procedure, according to the complaint.

The mates had nary thought what had happened. They didn't find retired astir the alleged mistake "until little than 2 years" earlier filing their lawsuit connected Dec. 26, 2025, successful Multnomah County Circuit Court.

"To K.W.'s and C.W.'s excitement, C.W. became pregnant, and she gave commencement to babe girl, A.P.," the ailment explains. "[The couple] raised [A.P.] arsenic their biologic kid ne'er reasoning that OHSU and/or Providence had wrongfully inseminated [C.W.] with overseas semen during her procedure."

Genetic investigating aboriginal revealed K.W. is not A.P.'s biologic father. The alleged dad, R.W., besides had a kid with his spouse, according to the complaint.

OHSU is accused of attempting to "conceal oregon different contradict that they wrongfully inseminated C.W.," the ailment says. "Further, OHSU has failed to decently analyse and notify its patients of aesculapian errors aft being placed connected announcement of plaintiffs' claims."

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The parents accidental OHSU's unit took possession of K.W.'s semen illustration and failed to guarantee "proper concatenation of custody successful aggregate regards." They suggest that K.W.'s illustration could person been utilized to inseminate a incorrect recipient, arsenic well.

"OHSU's and/or Providence's procedures (if any) were woefully insufficient to guarantee semen specimens were accurately received by the intended recipient," the ailment alleges, noting however OHSU maintained "professional affiliations, agencies and relationships" with different aesculapian facilities, entities and providers for the facilitation of aesculapian attraction and fertility procedures for patients, including Providence St. Vincent Hospital successful Portland, which is owned and operated by Providence Health.

"As a effect of the above-described conduct, plaintiffs person suffered and proceed to endure intelligence and affectional anguish, carnal pain, affectional distress, carnal manifestations of affectional distress including embarrassment, nonaccomplishment of self-esteem, disgrace, humiliation, nonaccomplishment of enjoyment of beingness that person prevented and volition proceed to forestall plaintiffs from performing regular activities and obtaining the afloat enjoyment of life," the couple's lawyers say. "It remains chartless whether defendants performed immoderate screening connected the overseas donor anterior to improperly utilizing the donor's worldly thereby exposing C.W. and A.P. to communicable diseases."

OHSU and Providence did not respond to Law&Crime's requests for remark connected Tuesday. Both declined to comment erstwhile reached by section media outlets.