A Czechoslovakian man was awarded about $35,000 after he successfully sued his girlfriend and a fertility clinic for misappropriating his sperm.
Tomas Kaspar, 36, admitted that he gave the sperm to the clinic in 1999, but that his girlfriend, Jitka Bouchalova, lied about the purpose of giving sperm sample. According to Kaspar, Bouchalova told him that the fertility clinic needed a sperm sample in order to determine the optimal birth control medicine to prescribe her.
Bouchalova admitted to telling her boyfriend that tall tale, but added that she never believed he’d actually fall for such a ludicrous story. She testified that,
When you enter a reproduction center and those words are written on the door, do you think you are there to decide about birth control?
Regardless of what he did or did not believe about his girlfriend’s explanation, the verdict against the fertility clinic is extremely odd given that Kaspar had to sign a number of consent forms in which he agreed, among other things, that he would acknowledge paternity for any children born from the donated sperm and one form in which the artificial insemination process was explained in detail.
Sources:
Czech man tricked into giving girlfriend his sperm. Ananova, September 11, 2003.
Donor wins contraception case. Ken Livingston, The Prague Post, September 18, 2003.