Woman Chooses 6-Feet-Tall Donor, Gives Birth To Kid With Dwarfism - Now She's Suing Sperm Bank

Since she 40-years-old, she thought it to be her last chance to get pregnant and chose a six-feet tall sperm donor to be the father of her child. She underwent a successful IVF treatment. She chose the donor after she liked the donor’s looks, higher education and height.??

But she was shocked when in the later stages of pregnancy, she found out that her baby will be born with dwarfism. The unborn baby boy was detected with suspected achondroplasia. It is a disorder of bone growth that prevents the change of cartilage to bone. It is also characterised by large brain size and small fingers.

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After the child was born, the doctors told the woman that the boy won’t be able to grow more than 4 feet and his facial and features and limbs would also not develop “correctly”. After this, the woman decided to sue the sperm bank, just to warn others.?

According to Dailymail UK, a district court ordered the blocking of Danish sperm bank in Russia. In their favour, the sperm bank said that they screen the donors for 46 of the most common genetic diseases. They also told media that all the supplied sperms were of “excellent quality”. "We only know that our biomaterial is of high quality," it added.

Medical sources also told the local media that it is not necessary that the condition (dwarfism) happened because of the sperm.?

The case is still going on.?