Washington state sperm doctor is sued by Idaho woman, 67, who he artificially inseminated 40 years ago – as she claims he used his OWN semen to get her pregnant without her consent

• Sharon Hayes has alleged that Dr. David Claypool inseminated her with his semen to get her pregnant without her consent 
• Doctors in Washington are not banned from secretly using their own sperm during artificial insemination procedures
• During her search, Brianna Hayes found multiple half-siblings in the Spokane

A 67-year-old Idaho woman has alleged that a Washington-based fertility doctor inseminated her with his semen to get her pregnant without her consent. 

Sharon Hayes has filed a lawsuit against Dr. David Claypool, 81, at the Spokane County Superior Court today for infringing the state’s medical malpractice statute. 

It requires doctors to get informed consent from patients for treatment and the Consumer Protection Act, which she claims Claypool violated.

He said of his past patients: ‘I know people are very happy. But this is the first I’ve heard of anything in 40 years.’ Claypool ended his practice in 2005. 

Sharon Hayes (right) has filed a lawsuit against Dr. David Claypool for inseminating her with his semen to get her pregnant with daughter Brianna (center) without her consent

Doctors in Washington are not banned from secretly using their own sperm during artificial insemination procedures. This is why Hayes has filed the case only on the grounds of medical malpractice. 

According to the lawsuit, Hayes received treatment from Claypool in 1989, after a friend recommended him.

In an interview, she said she started feeling uneasy around him early on for reasons that were ‘hard to pinpoint’ but dismissed those thoughts and went on to meet Claypool for six months before getting pregnant. 

Part of the fertility process was selecting an anonymous donor based on physical features, health and genetic qualities, usually from a pool of college students. 

Hayes said Claypool told her the group would have men who physically resembled Hayes’ then-husband.

Brianna uploaded some DNA test results to 23ndMe and MyHeritage and found multiple half-siblings in the Spokane area of Washington

Each time, she gave Claypool $100 in cash for the sperm — on top of what insurance billed, she said. The doctor told her it was ‘how college kids made their money.’

Her daughter, Brianna was born in July 1990. At the age of four, she was diagnosed with leukemia. 

She battled against it and survived. But that wasn’t the end of her medical problems. 

In high school, after she recovered, she was diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus, which can cause up to months of fatigue and fevers. 

‘I almost didn’t graduate, I was so ill,’ she told the Washington-based publication. 

As an adult, Brianna has had five hip surgeries, which forced her to relearn how to walk through on-and-off physical therapy. She’s also been diagnosed with a sleep disorder that severely impacts her daily activities.

 Brianna said: ‘I went through an identity crisis. It’s ongoing. I’ve had to come to terms with the idea that someone committed this act against my mom. And that I’m a product of it’

‘I was trying to see what my predispositions are for further issues,’ Brianna said. ‘What could be in my genetics? I was just trying to be informed.’

She decided to search for her father to understand her medical history better. Brianna uploaded some DNA test results to 23ndMe and MyHeritage and found multiple half-siblings in the Spokane area of Washington. 

Soon after, the group realized Claypool had a profile on one of the heritage websites. All their DNA results matched his.

She said: ‘I went through an identity crisis. It’s ongoing. I’ve had to come to terms with the idea that someone committed this act against my mom. And that I’m a product of it.’ 

Claypool’s lawyer has said that he believes the issue is currently under mediation. But Hayes’ attorney, RJ Ermola told the publication that the parties ‘could not resolve the matter through mediation’.

DailyMail.com has contacted Mr Ermola for additional comment.  

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