A renowned fertility doctor in Ottawa has quit artificially inseminating women as he prepares to face a disciplinary hearing for allegedly failing to use the correct sperm in three separate cases.
Dr. Norman Barwin, 71, has worked at the Broadview Fertility Clinic for more than three decades, during which time he received an Order of Canada and a Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for his work.
But in the last couple of years, Barwin has been accused of inseminating three different Ottawa women with sperm from men who were not the chosen surrogates, according to the notice of hearing from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO).
That led to two separate $1-million lawsuits filed by women from separate cases in 2004 and 2006 that were reported by CBC News in September 2010.
The mothers claimed DNA tests proved the intended donors were not the fathers of their children. Read full article.
