A woman saw a gynecologist for nine years then discovered the unthinkable truth. After nine years of regular vaginal and breast examinations with her gynecologist Morgan Hellquist solely came to a distressing realization. The doctor whom she’d trusted with countless examinations was, she suspected, her biological father.
The first inkling came during an appointment this April. Hellquist alleges in a lawsuit filed this weekend. Hellquist had never known her biological father, having been conceived via artificial insemination and born in September 1985. But she knew one thing, according to the lawsuit: the doctor Morris Wartman facilitated the artificial impregnation of her mother, though she and her family believed it involved the sperm of a medical student.
During the April appointment, as Wartman conducted a vaginal ultrasound on Hellquist, the doctor had allegedly asked Hellquist to take off her mask because she looked better without one. Wartman also invited his wife into the examination room to meet Hellquist so she could look at the woman’s features and discern a physical resemblance to Wartman, the lawsuit alleges.