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IN 1992 Dr Cecil B. Jacobson, the head of a fertility clinic in Vienna, Virginia, was convicted of fraud and perjury. Jacobson had been found to have used his own sperm to impregnate as many as seventy-five women, while telling his clients that the sperm was from anonymous donors.

WHEN a condom manufacturer decided to call his new range ‘Stealth Condoms’, the Northrop Corporation, builder of the B-2 Stealth Bomber, filed suit, claiming that people might confuse the two products!

ONE of fourteen death row inmates in California who filed a lawsuit asking the state to allow them to father children either through conjugal visits or artificial insemination was a certain gentleman named Herbert J. Coddington. His crime? Killing his two children following a custody dispute with his wife.