fertility fraud

When Heather Woock was in her late 20s, she started researching her family history. As part of the project she spit into a tube and sent it to Ancestry, a consumer DNA testing service. Then in 2017, she started getting messages about the results from people who said they could be half-siblings.

Side Effects reporters Jake Harper and Lauren Bavis sat down with WFYI's Joe Boehnlein to talk about the first season of the podcast Sick.

A bill creating civil and criminal penalties for fertility fraud is headed to the governors desk.

Indiana public defenders raised concerns in a House committee Monday about language in a bill that creates criminal and civil penalties for fertility fraud.

Victims of "fertility fraud" would have the right to sue in civil court under legislation approved by a Senate committee Wednesday.