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First person to give birth from a sperm donor is a woman inseminated without her consent.

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The first known sperm donation facilitates a pregnancy at the hands of physician William Pancoast. Dr. Pancoast engages in deception, and inseminates a woman with his most "attractive" student's sperm while she is under anesthesia. She gives birth nine months later, and is unaware that she was impregnated with a stranger's sperm.