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Dr. Barwin, Norman

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Dr. Barwin has been found to be the father of sperm donor children created at this office, and he has been involved in other sperm "mix-ups": http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-doctor-loses-order-of-canada-after-sperm-mix-ups-1.1398704 4/18: "I am part of a class action lawsuit against Dr. Norman Barwin, a Canadian fertility doctor accused of inseminating over 50 women (and likely many more, it is early days) with the wrong sperm, including his own. You can read more about the class action here: https://nelligan.ca/class-actions/dr-barwin/ Using the DSR, my husband and I were able to locate where our children came from (Repromed donor 3168) and subsequently discovered that Repromed shipped out over 1,000 vials of this donor's sperm and he has at least 36 children that we know of. We have connected with some of them, and with the donor himself. The donor is wonderful but he is very upset as Repromed did not inform him that his sperm was used in this fashion (even though they knew) and he didn't know the number of children even though he asked repeatedly. He said he consented to a maximum of 10 children. Repromed told us this week they will not assist the lawyers in finding the donors of these "accidental sperm donor babies." So we, the parents, are wondering if the DSR would consider publicizing our plight and putting up a link on the website and an email address that Barwin patients can use to connect with other parents in this situation. We have set up an email address: Broadviewconnection@gmail.com. anyone who writes to this will connect to the Barwin victims (Broadview Clinic was the name of Barwin's practice)."


Donor ID & Info Offspring / Contact Info
Donor ID: A198
  • Born 1960.
  • Russian Polish.
  • Height: 6'0''.
  • Blood type O+
  • Weight: 155.
  • Dark brown Wavy hair.
  • Medical Student.
  • Music and sports, played guitar and piano.
  • Studied communications and business as an undergraduate. Donated around 1984, and may have been Dr. Barwin's student in medical school. Weight and height may be incorrect. Birthday was either May 6th, 1960, or June 5th 1960. At the time of the donation his mother was 52 and in good health, his father 57 and in good health. The only family medical problem he noted was that his father had hay fever. He indicated that he played guitar and piano and that his interests were music and sports.
  • I am a Female born Mar 16 1990
  • Read message posted 02/17/14
  • Updated on 02/18/14
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There are a total of 1 offspring, 0 sibling matches, and 0 donor to offspring matches for this donor.