The biggest concern for my children is,
as they get older and find someone
that they want a long relationship with,
it's gonna end bein' a cousin
or an aunt, an uncle.
I have not really told my kids.
90% of us are are central Indiana located.
So, meeting someone, are they gonna have to say,
"Did their parents go to Dr. Cline?"
Especially in this small Indiana community.
Well, Carrie, Jacoba, Matt and Amber
share half of their DNA with the disgraced
fertility doctor, Donald Cline,
who used his own specimen on unsuspecting women
and now the children are learning
they have as many as 70 siblings.
And, it's pretty naive to think
that it stops there
because some people don't know
or maybe have chosen not to come forward.
The multi-generational genetic consequences,
if you think about them, are really endless.
Jacoba confronted Cline at a restaurant
about his actions and he showed her,
really, no remorse at all.
A few siblings did reach out to Dr. Cline
and set up a meeting with him.
When I met with Cline he was very matter-of-fact
and he knew at the time there was only eight of us.
I did donor insemination
over hundreds of people and I only donated
my own sample, maybe, nine or 10 times.
At the time, there was no sperm banks
that I could refer the couples to.
The meeting was really bizarre.
He showed up with a gun on his side
which I immediately thought was odd.
Why would you show up to meet
people that you think
are probably your biological children
in a public place.
He never really gave a straight answer.
He told them that you should be proud
that you're here and that you're alive
and I did exactly what your parents
wanted me to do, which is not the truth.
I thought I was helping people
that had no other recourse.
I know that nothing happens without God allowing it.
One of my favorite scriptures was Jeremiah 1:5,
"Before I formed you in your mother's womb I knew you."
No one is born as a mistake.
He told me that it was my fault
and he also told me that,
(sighing) sorry,
I was ruining his life
and that his world would be over
and it needed to just stay a secret between us.
You felt no remorse from him,
other than just the fear of being caught.
He was no remorseful at all.
He just did not want it to be public.
He told me, "The world does not need to know."
Wow, and this really plays havoc
with your ability to trust.
Tell me what you say to yourself about this.
Before this, I've had a hard time
with feeling like I'm good enough
or worthy enough (sighing)
or if I'm gonna be accepted.
And since finding this out,
it's brought all that back up the surface.
I was sexually assaulted when I was 16 years old.
And knowing now that my mom was violated in such way,
that's how I've connected those.
I mean, there's nothing more intimate
in a woman's life than becoming pregnant.
We've got laws and procedure and policies
for a variety of things in life
because those things happen.
But, this is on a different level.
And let's not forget, too,
that not only, there's some of us
that were supposed to be from donor sperm.
We also have siblings who were supposed to be
from their father and instead
he used his own sperm on their mother.
I don't think people understand
one of the reasons why this is such horrific
an experience is, it's not just
that he used his own sperm on our mothers,
is that he was known for using
fresh specimens on his patients.
That's why he had such a successful business
and practice is because he didn't use
frozen specimens, he used fresh.