Yet three months after he broke up with his girlfriend, she became pregnant with his sperm at the Advanced Fertility Center of Texas. In his lawsuit, Pressil said he found out about the plot when a receipt arrived in the mail, listing him as the patient. "Pressil was listed as the 'patient' on the receipt even though he had never been to (the clinic) nor ever sought treatment for male infertility," according to his lawsuit. His ex-girlfriend gave birth to twin boys and then sued him for child support. She was granted that child support after blood tests confirmed Pressil was the father. "That's a violation of myself, to what I believe in, to my religion, and just to my manhood," Pressil said.
Pressil said his ex-girlfriend always claimed she was unable to have children due to a medical condition involving fibroids. He also said she claimed that her condition required a certain sort of condom be used during sex. Now, in hindsight, he said that seems suspicious. "I did notice a little bit because she would take the condom and ask me to discard it. And usually, a male would discard their own property, but she would always take the condom and she would run off out of the room and I just didn't think anything of it. And I didn't think that anyone could use a condom and bring it to a clinic to get an in vitro," he said. Pressil's attorney, Jason Gibson says this is particularly terrifying for a man, especially if he's not planning to have a family.
"It's not what you're thinking when you're in a relationship. That's not what most people are thinking, that their partner is going to get a special condom, use that condom as soon as you're done having sex, run off to the fertility clinic to go have an IVF procedure. That's certainly not what my client was thinking," Gibson said. An attorney representing the Advanced Fertility Center and Omni-Med Laboratories, Danny Sheena, called the lawsuit "suspect" and "disingenuous." He admitted that some men simply don't like visiting fertility clinics, so some samples are delivered to the clinic without the man being there. He said, in this case, the specimen arrived in a cup that was sealed in a bag.
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A signed consent from the sperm donor is the absolute least the clinic should require in cases where a woman comes in with a sample and without a man (who might be too embarrassed to visit in person - or utterly unaware that his seed has been stolen and about to be used in IVF). If indeed the clinic didn't ask his permission in any way, then both the woman and the clinic have wronged this man, and he certainly shouldn't be required to pay child support.
I'm sure his lawyer will find a loop hole in this mess. If she manipulated this whole thing, the I hope he sues her for sole custody of the twins.
He doesn't want the children, so I certainly hope he doesn't sue for custody just to hurt the mother. That would be more awful than what she did.
What is this strange religion he belongs to where pre-marital sex is OK, but fertility clinics are bad.
That makes a religion strange?
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