Cline is still alive today, still living in his hometown in Indiana, and is believed to be in his 80s. However, the real punch to the gut is that – besides not feeling remorse for his actions – some of his children live only a few blocks away from him.
Cline fathered nearly 100 children during the 1970s and 1980s while using his own sperm to impregnate dozens of unsuspecting patients, according to court documents.
Is Dr Donald Cline still married? Yes. He is still married to Susie Audrey Cline, with whom he has two children (Donna and Doug Cline).
Donald Lee Cline (born December 10, 1938) is a convicted felon and an American former medical doctor of obstetrics and gynaecology. Between 1974 and 1987, Cline sired over 90 children without disclosing himself as the sperm donor to his patients.
Today, Cline has 94 biological children via artificial insemination. If that figure was not haunting enough, at the end of Our Father on Netflix, a title card suggests this figure could be set to rise. It reads: "As of this production, there are currently 94 Cline siblings and counting..."
As of the Our Father production, there are currently 94 Cline siblings – however, it's thought that there could be more.
One of at least 87 children secretly fathered by an Indiana fertility doctor in the 1970s and '80s sued Netflix Inc. for exposing her identity in the documentary “Our Father.”
Indiana became the first state in the U.S. to make it illegal for fertility doctors to use their own sperm without a patient's consent. However, today there is still no federal law that makes Cline's acts a criminal offense.
A top fertility doctor had a sickening secret: he was using his own sperm. Decades later, his “children” came together to pursue justice — this is how they broke the news to their fourteenth (!) sibling. Cline is still alive today, still living in his hometown in Indiana, and is believed to be in his 80s.
Currently, there are 94 known Cline half-siblings, according to a message at the end of Our Father. But that number could very well increase as more people conceived via artificial insemination — particularly in the Indianapolis area — take at-home DNA tests.
At the time The Atlantic's 2019 article on Cline was published, he was in his 80s and still living in his home town of Indianapolis, Indiana.
“Our Father” tells the unsettling story about Dr. Donald Cline, a former Indiana fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients without their knowledge.
During the 1970s and '80s, Cline was widely regarded as one of the best fertility doctors in the business. A family man, church elder and devout Christian, Cline was also highly regarded in his community.
Related Story. Now, Jacoba is an advocate for donor-conceived people. She works with the group Right To Know, which pushes for fertility fraud laws, as a mentor.
Netflix's Our Father Tells The True Story of a Fertility Doctor Who Used His Own Sperm on Patients. During the 1970s and '80s, a fertility specialist in Indiana named Dr. Donald Cline inseminated dozens of patients with his own sperm, without their knowledge or consent.
A British scientist who ran a fertility clinic in London from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, used his own sperm and may have fathered hundreds of children, it has been claimed. The Barton clinic, run by Dr Bertold Wiesner and his wife Dr Mary Barton helped to conceive around 1,500 children.
Cline himself, whose religious convictions and affiliations, victims believe, border on eugenics, was not interviewed for the documentary—an absence that brings those familiar with the narrative no closer to understanding its central motives.
Our Father is an American Netflix original documentary film directed by Lucie Jourdan and produced by Michael Petrella and Jason Blum. Its story follows former Indianapolis based fertility doctor Donald Cline, who, in a case of fertility fraud, used his own sperm to impregnate dozens of unsuspecting patients.
And Our Father reveals that Cline fathered 94 children with his patients at the time of filming.
A fertility doctor used his sperm to get unsuspecting patients pregnant. Some of his 94 biological children share their trauma in the film 'Our Father.
(WXIN) – “Our Father” is a true crime documentary playing on Netflix that tells the story of a former Indiana fertility doctor who impregnated his patients with his own sperm without them knowing.
How many children did Donald and his wife have? According to the documentary, Donald and Susie have two children together - Donna and Doug, who Jacoba reached out to ahead of filming.
Cline was not interviewed in the documentary. And the Quiverfull connection is a theory put forth by Jacoba and her siblings.
Cline was once an elderman with Zionsville Fellowship, and people with the church say they did not know Cline used his own sperm samples until it was made public in a FOX59 news report in 2016.
Cline, now a retiree, did end up in court in 2017, but it wasn't on charges of rape or battery. Instead, the charge that took him there was obstruction of justice — he had lied to prosecutors during their investigation. This meant that the evidence of Cline's actions involving his former patients was not admissible.