No IVF, No contraception, no non-marital sex - it's a package deal:
Pressil said he hadn't considered having a family, and his religious beliefs would never allow him to visit a fertility clinic or participate in any form of artificial insemination. Yet three months after he broke up with his girlfriend, she became pregnant with his sperm at the Advanced Fertility Center of Texas on the Katy Freeway near Beltway 8.
In his lawsuit, Pressil said he found out about the plot when a receipt arrived in the mail, listing him as the patient.
"Pressil was listed as the 'patient' on the receipt even though he had never been to (the clinic) nor ever sought treatment for male infertility," according to his lawsuit.
His ex-girlfriend gave birth to twin boys and then sued him for child support. She was granted that child support after blood tests confirmed Pressil was the father.
"That's a violation of myself, to what I believe in, to my religion, and just to my manhood," Pressil said.
Pressil said his ex-girlfriend always claimed she was unable to have children due to a medical condition involving fibroids. He also said she claimed that her condition required a certain sort of condom be used during sex. Now, in hindsight, he said that seems suspicious.
"I did notice a little bit because she would take the condom and ask me to discard it. And usually, a male would discard their own property, but she would always take the condom and she would run off out of the room and I just didn't think anything of it. And I didn't think that anyone could use a condom and bring it to a clinic to get an in vitro," he said.
Pressil's attorney, Jason Gibson says this is particularly terrifying for a man, especially if he's not planning to have a family.
"It's not what you're thinking when you're in a relationship. That's not what most people are thinking, that their partner is going to get a special condom, use that condom as soon as you're done having sex, run off to the fertility clinic to go have an IVF procedure. That's certainly not what my client was thinking," Gibson said.
An attorney representing the Advanced Fertility Center and Omni-Med Laboratories, Danny Sheena, called the lawsuit "suspect" and "disingenuous."
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This is a very new take on pre-marital or non-marital sex or sex at all. There is ever something NEW that far outweighs anything ever dreamed of in my lifetime.... Unbelievable...
I did want to point out that this fellow is a little inconsistant.
Premarital sex is OK according to this man but IVF, artificial insemination and fertility clinics are not?
Both Marian and the lead in essentially pointed this out.
I hope he wins his lawsuit because this would send a dangerous precedent if he loses.
Julie,
Exactly. It's a weirdly convenient kind of morality that finds an opposition to a procedure that is rare and very intentional but no problem with conduct that happens all the time.
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