13 Facts About Cecil Jacobson

Cecil Byran Jacobson was an American former fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients without informing them.

Cecil Jacobson claimed that he had terminated the pregnancy after four months, but never published his results in scientific publications.

Cecil Jacobson specialized in treating women who had difficulty getting pregnant, or problems carrying a pregnancy to term.

Cecil Jacobson performed ultrasounds, identifying a fetus in the grainy image.

At least seven instances were identified in which Cecil Jacobson was the biological father of the patients' children, including one patient who was supposed to have been inseminated with sperm provided by her husband.

Cecil Jacobson offered these explanations: With regard to the "false pregnancy" cases, he had believed that the women had actually been pregnant, and continued to maintain that some of them really were pregnant.

Cecil Jacobson was well aware that injected hCG could trigger a false positive on a pregnancy test, but thought that the dosages he administered were too low to have that effect.

Cecil Jacobson acknowledged using his own sperm on some occasions, when donors failed to show up when needed, and a patient was about to miss a window of opportunity to become pregnant.

In 1992, Cecil Jacobson was convicted of 52 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, and perjury.

Cecil Jacobson was sentenced to five years in prison and had his medical license revoked.

Cecil Jacobson appealed his convictions and sentence, but they were upheld by the court of appeals.

Cecil Jacobson later moved to Provo, Utah, where he was involved in agricultural research.

Cecil Jacobson died on March 5th, 2021 in Springville, Utah at the age of 84.