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What Religion Is Disgraced Fertility Doctor Donald Cline?

What Religion Is Disgraced Fertility Doctor Donald Cline
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, fertility doctor Donald Cline used his own sperm to impregnate women, without telling them. Was this a religious endeavor?

"Before I formed you in your mother’s womb, I knew you," is something Donald Cline would frequently say. It's paraphrasing the Book of Jeremiah in the Bible (chapter 1, verse 5), which actually reads, "Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."

This a chapter and verse favored by the Quiverfull movement, a strict branch of conservative Christians who reject contraception.

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