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RSS Feeds`It made me feel contaminated´: Biological daughter of Ottawa fertility doctor who used his own sperm speaks of impact
(The Star Golf)

 
 

26 june 2019 13:55:03

 
`It made me feel contaminated´: Biological daughter of Ottawa fertility doctor who used his own sperm speaks of impact
(The Star Golf)
 


Rebecca Dixon says that whenever she’s out at the theatre or busier parts of Ottawa, she finds herself looking for people who look like her and could potentially be her half-siblings. She is one of several people who over the last four years have learned through DNA testing that they are the biological children of retired Ottawa fertility doctor Norman Barwin. The 80-year-old physician was stripped of his licence Tuesday by a discipline panel of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, which found he had impregnated a number of women going back to the 1970s with the wrong semen — in some cases his own. “In two or 10 or 30 years, there may still be people coming forward who will only then be discovering the truth and who will only then be starting the painful process of understanding what this means for them,” Dixon said in a victim impact statement that she read to the panel. “At first I couldn’t handle the idea of Dr. Barwin being my biological father; the idea repulsed me. It made me feel contaminated — I didn’t want to be connected to someone who had done something so damaging and I couldn’t help but wonder if it meant something about me.” Barwin, who resigned his licence in 2014, was a no-show at Tuesday’s hearing. His lawyer entered a plea of no contest, meaning Barwin doesn’t admit guilt but does not contest the facts and accepts that the committee can find them correct. A public reprimand was ordered, but his lawyer confirmed that Barwin would also not attend at a future date as he has some medical issues. (The college said no medical evidence of that had been provided.)“The panel would first like to express its frustration at your decision to not appear before it to receive what is clearly a well-deserved reprimand,” discipline panel chair Dr. Steven Bodley said in Barwin’s absence. “It seems immensely unfair that you are not here to face the victims ...


 
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