PORTLAND, Ore. (Sept. 23) - A man who donated sperm so that his fiancee could be inseminated is suing an Oregon hospital that gave the sample to the wrong woman.
The man, identified in court papers only as "M.H.", is seeking $2 million from Oregon Health & Sciences University. He also filed a separate lawsuit to determine whether a child was born.
The hospital acknowledges that the man's sperm was used to inseminate a woman he hadn't intended it for.
"OHSU is deeply sorry for this situation," said Barbara Glidewell, the hospital's patient advocate and ethicist. "Health care providers are human and error is inevitable."
The hospital, whose fertility clinic performs about 1,000 inseminations a year, said new safeguards have been implemented.
