The true story behind Netflix's "Our Father"

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He was a well respected fertility doctor in Indiana ... who secretly impregnated dozens of his patients.   This is the bizarre but true story of Dr. Donald Cline and his more than 90 children.

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00:00I walk around and I can be related to anyone.

00:03I dread every new match that comes, but they just keep coming.

00:15I know deep down that we will never, ever know the complete truth as to how many siblings we have.

00:27Genetic tests reveal all.

00:31Genetic tests reveal all.

00:39I was 35 and I take a DNA test.

00:43When I opened up Ancestry, I had over 3,000 heads.

01:00I think one of the scariest things is that the potential for unknown siblings to kind of hook up.

01:13We're matching as close relatives on Ancestry and somehow mentioned the name Cline.

01:37Chris was a person of a position of power.

01:39He's known in our community as a philanthropist.

01:41He's an elder of the church.

01:43I know that nothing happens without God allowing it.

01:46One of my favorite scriptures was Jeremiah 1-5.

01:50Before I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you.

01:54I knew you.

02:07We were told that they were going to be residents from interns at the hospital across the street

02:12and that our payment of cash or check was to protect the anemone of that person.

02:19Think about all the hundreds and thousands of women he lied to.

02:23About the source of the sperm.

02:35Cline's attorney appeared before the state medical license board today on the retired doctor's behalf

02:40and now he no longer has a legal right to practice medicine here in the state of Indiana.

02:46The 79-year-old pled guilty today to two counts of obstruction of justice.

02:50Prosecutors filed those charges after Cline lied to the attorney general

02:55about using his own sperm to impregnate his patient.

02:58Cline told the court during his sentencing that he was sorry saying,

03:01quote, out of fear, I acted alone and foolishly.

03:04He said, quote, out of fear, I acted alone and foolishly.

03:07He said, quote, out of fear, I acted alone and foolishly.

03:10Cline told the court during his sentencing that he was sorry saying,

03:13quote, out of fear, I acted alone and foolishly.

03:16I lied.

03:25The House Committee is now expected to amend and vote on a bill combating fertility fraud next week.

03:31This is a bill that's a direct result of Dr. Donald Cline.

03:40This is a bill that's a direct result of Dr. Donald Cline.

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