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Sperm bank sued under product liability law

danarhea

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There is a lot of irony in this story......

If a different sperm had been used, then someone else would have been born, and she would not be alive to sue the sperm bank.

That's gratitude for you. :mrgreen:

Article is here.
 
She should sue her mom, cause her mom contributed to her ****ed up genes just as much as the sperm from the donor.
 
Maybe they should just toss out the defective product.
 
FWIW, nothing about the judge's ruling appears to have indicated anything about the merits. It seems as if all he decided was that the case could proceed in NY instead of in PA, as the sperm bank had wanted.
 
Article says they tested her mom and that she doesn’t carry fragile X. Skimming the wikipedia article for fragile X, it says men who carry the gene have a crapload of defects that would be readily evident to anyone whose job was to screen for obvious genetic defects.

Maybe I’m under a misconception here, but I’ve always thought that sperm banks made at least perfunctory efforts to avoid defective product. Don’t they screen out Beavis and Butthead with physicals, questions about personal history and IQ tests? Aren’t physical symptoms of retardation, like sloping foreheads and facial deformations, enough to make the receptionist turn them away before they even come close to a collection cup?

Sounds like the clinic really dropped the ball when they let a retard contribute to their stock; I think this girl and her mother have every right to sue the clinic for such an egregious ****-up. If not, maybe I’ll go binge drinking for a week, roll around in a dumpster for a few days and then go contribute to a sperm bank.
 
Maybe Mom was too cheap to buy the good stuff. :mrgreen:
 
This is why judges and lawyers will always be seen as scum. If its not dumbasses spilling coffee on themselves,fatasses suing McDonalds or criminal scum suing homeowners when they injure themselves in a burglary victim's home it is now this ****. Lawyers taking cases like these and judges allowing cases is why they are seen as the money grubbing scum they are.
 
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