This documentary tells the murky story of Dr Jan Karbaat, who secretly impregnated his female patients. It’s bleak to know we will never run out of stories of men being terrible to women
Last year I reviewed Our Father, a 90-minute documentary by Lucie Jourdan about a fertility doctor in Indiana who had spent 30 years secretly impregnating unwitting patients with his own sperm rather than that of their husbands or chosen donors. My overriding thought was that where there was one such doctor, there was undoubtedly another – and probably a whole lot more than that. There hasn’t, after all, been a technology invented yet that an oppressor class hasn’t found some way to use against its favourite oppressed class.
Lo, it has come to pass. In fact, Seeds of Deceit, about Dr Jan Karbaat, a Dutch pioneer in the field of artificial insemination, who covertly fathered hundreds of children via his unconsenting patients, had already made its debut at the Sundance film festival the year before Jourdan’s programme streamed on Netflix. I suspect we are at the start of a new subgenre of true-crime story and I advise everyone to lower their expectations about humanity so the despair does not overwhelm.
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