医生使用自己的精子后获得了 875 万美元的赔偿金

医生使用自己的精子后获得了875万美元的赔偿金：$8.75m awarded in damages after doctor used his own

在民事诉讼之后，科罗拉多州的陪审团命令一名在治疗患者时使用自己的精子的医生支付875万美元的赔偿金。

约翰·琼斯博士和西科罗拉多州妇女保健诊所被勒令向谢丽尔·埃蒙斯和她的两个女的玛雅·埃蒙斯-博林和塔尼·斯科特支付这笔钱，这些索赔包括医疗过失、缺乏知情同意、欺诈和极端行为。妇科医生的其他前患者也指责琼斯博士以这种方式使用自己的精子来生17个孩子，尽管没有同意这样做（见BioNews 1033）。

他的许多生物学后在进行在线DNA测试后发现了这一事实。Emmons-Boring告诉《纽约时报》，在她接受Ancestry.com测试后，一名自称是她同父异母兄弟姐妹的妇女联系她后，她发现自己是使用琼斯博士的精子受孕的。她说她处理了很多内疚，并说：“因为我参加了那次考试，这让很多人的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。”

琼斯博士的病人被告知他们将接受医生或医学生的给予，用于他们的生育治疗，琼斯博士和他的法律团队在之前的法庭案件中辩称：“所有母亲都要求匿名给予，所有母亲们收到了匿名免费款。

然而虽然他在1970年和80年这样做时将自己的精子用于患者身上并不违法，但他的案件导致科罗拉多州在2025年通过了一项法律，该法律禁止医疗保健提供者“故意使用来自自己的配子”而没有患者的同意。琼斯博士在被指控对病人使用自己的精子后几天内放弃了他的执照。

在上周公布的立法草案之后，该州现在准备成为第一个禁止匿名精子和子给予并限制每个自己可以进行的给予数量的州。该法案和科罗拉多州2025年法案的发起人、州表克里·蒂珀(Kerry Tipper)说：“匿名承诺不再是我们可以信守的承诺。”如果该法案获得通过，这将是美国第一个这样做的州。

相信琼斯博士在生育治疗期间使用自己的精子的另外五个家庭在审判前庭外和解，另外两起纠纷目前正在进行中。

原文：

A Colorado-based jury has ordered a doctor who used his own sperm when treating a patient to pay$8.75m in damages，following a civil lawsuit.

Dr John Jones and the Women's Health Care of Western Colorado clinic were ordered to pay the money to Cheryl Emmons and her two daughters Maia Emmons-Boring and Tahnee Scott over several claims including medical negligence，lack of informed consent，fraud，and extreme conduct.Other former patients of the gynaecologist have also accused Dr Jones of using his own sperm to father 17 children this way，despite a lack of consent to do this(see BioNews 1033).

Many of his biological offspring discovered the fact after taking online DNA tests.Emmons-Boring told the New York Times she discovered that she had been conceived using Dr Jones sperm after she was contacted by a woman claiming to be her half-sibling after she took an Ancestry.com test.She said she dealt with a lot of guilt and said：'It's turned so many lives upside down because I took that test.'

Patients of Dr Jones had been told they would receive a donation from either a doctor or a medical student for their fertility treatment and Dr Jones'and his legal team have argued in previous court cases that：'all mothers asked for anonymous donation，and all mothers received anonymous donation.'

However，while using his own sperm on patients was not illegal when he did this in the 1970s and 80s，his case led to the state of Colorado passing a law in 2025 which outlawed a health care provider'knowingly using gametes'from a donor without a patient's consent.Dr Jones gave up his licence within days of being accused of using his own sperm on patients.

The state is now poised to become the first state to ban anonymous sperm and egg donations and limit the number of donations each donor can make，following the publication of draft legislation last week.'The promise of anonymity is not a promise that we can keep anymore，'said state representative Kerry Tipper，a sponsor of this bill and the 2025 bill in Colorado.It would be the first state in the USA to do so if the bill is passed.

Five other families who believe Dr Jones used his own sperm during fertility treatment settled out of court prior to trial and another two disputes are currently ongoing.