Our Father shocked viewers by documenting the true story of the fertility doctor, Donald Cline. The chilling documentary follows the victims of Dr. Cline's scheme and their attempts to carry out justice. The half-siblings and their parents share their stories and reflect on the damage Dr. Cline did to their families.
Here is the scoop on the best quotes from Our Father!
1. “Growing up, I felt different.” - Jacoba Ballard
2. “She’s my everything.” - Debbie Pierce
3. “I’m this blonde-haired, blue-eyed person in a family with dark hair and olive skin and dark eyes.” - Jacoba Ballard
4. “I love that child more than life itself.” - Debbie Pierce
5. “I always had this longing for siblings.” - Jacoba Ballard
6. “All I knew was my mom went to Dr. Donald Cline, and he was the go-to doctor.” - Jacoba Ballard
7. “He was very straightforward, matter-of-fact, no empathy.” - Jacoba Ballard
8. “I just wanted someone that related to me, that's, you know, my brother or sister, and I just wanted to have that bond.” - Jacoba Ballard
9. “I just went on with life, and, you know, married, raised my children, and hoped that someday maybe I would find a sibling or two.” - Jacoba Ballard
10. “But I remember asking him, telling him I wanted to find half-siblings, and he said that I can’t ever know that information.” - Jacoba Ballard
11. “Dr. Cline was the best-known fertility doctor in Indianapolis.” - Jan Shore
12. “I was partnered with Dr. Cline from 1987 to 1991, and I have to say, my career wouldn’t be what it has been over the last thirty-five years if it hadn’t been for Don Cline.” - Dr. Robert Colver
13. “It was a great field. It was really interesting.” - Jan Shore
14. “Once you do that donor insemination and they get pregnant, that’s their baby. Forever.” - Dr. Robert Colver
15. “It was hopeful.” - Liz White
16. “It was always very emotional when one of your girlfriends would call you and say she was pregnant because there were several times that I’d get off the phone, and I’d just cry because I wanted a child so bad.” - Dianna Kiesler
17. I was told, ‘The only person who’s doing live sperm donor insemination is Dr. Don Cline. He’s the best of the best, so go to him.’” - Liz White
18. “It was hard on me and my husband.” - Dianna Kiesler
19. “I was thinking actually positive thoughts, ‘Wow. I might be able to have a child.’” - Liz White
20. “When the doctor’s office called me and told me I was pregnant, I couldn’t believe it.” - Dianna Kiesler
21. “I thought it was a gift at the time.” - Liz White
22. “We were just so happy when I had her.” - Dianna Kiesler
23. “My goal was to find a sibling.” - Jacoba Ballard
24. “Obviously, you used someone’s sperm more than three times. And that’s when we started to do our own investigating.” - Jacoba Ballard
25. “Finding out that I had siblings was amazing, but there’s, you know, eight of us.” - Jacoba Ballard
26. “Every weekend, we would call each other, or we would plug names into Ancestry and work on a family tree.” - Jacoba Ballard
27. “Right then, my stomach dropped, and I felt sick because she just confirmed what I think we probably already knew, but we were hoping wasn’t true.” - Jacoba Ballard
28. “We joked one day, trying to figure it out, and we’re like, ‘Wouldn’t it be crazy if it was the doctor?’” - Jacoba Ballard
29. “Dr. Donald Cline could be our biological father.” - Jacoba Ballard
30. “I was in shock.” - Jacoba Ballard
31. “He lied about a donor being used. Why did he do it? How long did he do it? And how many siblings do we have?” - Jacoba Ballard
32. “I honestly didn’t know who to go to.” - Jacoba Ballard
33. “There were so many emotions. So many questions.” - Jacoba Ballard
34. “I wanted answers. So I reached out to every news outlet, big and small, and nobody would pick up the story.” - Jacoba Ballard
35. “Why is no one listening, or at least finding the truth?” - Angela Ganote
36. “I had seen the news pop on one night, and I saw Jacoba on TV, and my husband thought that we looked a lot alike.” - Julie Harmon
37. “Go back to everything that you’ve known about yourself. It just completely washes away your identity. And you really have no idea who you are anymore.” - Julie Harmon
38. “It was almost like the moment that his feet hit the floor, you could hear his footsteps, and you could hear his cane.” - Jacoba Ballard
39. “He was not showing emotion. And on his hip, I could see the outline of a gun.” - Jacoba Ballard
40. “It was almost like he was ranking us. Like, ‘Let me see which one of my offspring made it to the top.’” - Jacoba Ballard
41. “You’re not gonna use my God to justify your actions.” - Jacoba Ballard
42. “I just felt bad for my mother. I mean here she was, you know, a young woman just wanting to have a family like anyone else.” - Matt White
43. “It’s a sick individual that puts himself in that position to be able to do that.” - Matt White
44. “There are parts of me that wish that I never had to deal with infertility. I wish that walk on no one.” - Liz White
45. “This is unbelievable.” - Matt White
46. “He always was confident. He always was self-assured.” - Jan Shore
47. “If you knew something, and he knew something, he knew more. That was his attitude.” - Shereen Farber
48. “If you crossed him, that was it.” - Dr. Robert Colver
49. “I had just papers everywhere to prove that I wasn’t some crazy maniac.” - Jacoba Ballard
50. “When it all hit me, I kind of just sat and stared for the rest of the day.” - Heather Woock
51. “He wanted me to keep quiet. And he wanted me to keep quiet because he knew there were more siblings.” - Jacoba Ballard
52. “There was never any reason that I would have questioned anything.” - Heather Woock
53. “Every time that a new sibling pops up, I know that I’m going to call them, and I know that I’m going to ruin their life.” - Jacoba Ballard
54. “It’s hard because we know what we went through. And we’re making someone else go through this exact same thing” - Julie Harmon
55. “When you have new siblings pop up, you are on the phone with them for hours because it’s the worst day of their life. You’ve lived that over and over and over.” - Jacoba Ballard
56. “They thought all along that I was my dad’s.” - Lisa Shepherd-Stidham
57. “When we get a new sibling alert, you’re praying, ‘Please don’t let it be someone I know.’” - Lisa Shepherd-Stidham
58. “Everyone you interact with appears to have some sort of connection to Cline.” - Matt White
59. “I think without a doubt, there are probably people that I’ve met that are my half-sibling, and I just don’t even know it. They don’t even know it.” - Matt White
60. “Who knows how many siblings we have?” - Jacoba Ballard
61. “I let him know that we have that burden, to tell the truth, and the truth matters.” - Angela Ganote
62. “I’m not scared of you. You can threaten me, but I will never back down.” - Jacoba Ballard
63. “I feel like he’s hiding something more sinister.” - Jason Hyatt
64. “He could have stopped at any point, but he kept doing it over and over and over.” - Jacoba Ballard
65. “I’m going to expose you, and I’m going to expose all of your secrets.” - Jacoba Ballard
66. “He knew exactly what he was doing with us.” - Julie Harmon
67. “It’s disgusting to sit there and lay in bed at night, and wonder if the person that created you is some racist bigot, and he used my mom as a pawn.” - Jacoba Ballard
68. “There is no crime that touches this particular act. That’s our problem.” - Tim Delaney
69. “I want an investigation. I want him punished.” - Jacoba Ballard
70. “I didn’t wanna make eye contact with him. I was afraid of him.” - Matt White
71. “I don’t think we’ll ever know why he was doing it, but I want him to have to pay for it.” - Jacoba Ballard
72. “He actually walked right past me and brushed up against me, and it almost brought me to my knees.” - Julie Harmon
73. “I didn’t ask to be born into this situation, but this is my life.” - Jacoba Ballard
74. “What we’re really getting at is the inability for victims to tell their stories.” - Jody Madeira
75. “There were people corrupt, and they were friends with him or something.” - Jacoba Ballard
76. “I really wanted him to have jail time. I really did.” - Dianna Kiesler
77. “This was a span of two years from me filing a complaint, to them actually, finally doing something about it.” - Jacoba Ballard
78. “I just feel like he, that this was some sick game experiment for him.” - Carrie Foster
79. “This judge just let this man pretty much off the hook.” - Jacoba Ballard
80. “I dread every new match that comes.” - Jacoba Ballard
81. “It was, you know, important to my parents that it was someone that was healthy, and for him to turn around and violate them and do this without their consent, and there’s a lot of us that have the same health issues.” - Carrie Foster
82. “I’m sick. And other siblings have autoimmune diseases and stuff.” - Jacoba Ballard
83. “I mean, I’ve spent weeks in the hospital, losing fifteen pounds at a time.” - Jason Hyatt
84. “I have an autoimmune disorder, yeah.” - Heather Woock
85. “I have a lot of digestive issues and colon issues, and no one on my mom’s side does.” - Carrie Foster
86. “You knew you had issues. Like, how dare you?” - Jason Hyatt
87. “Now, there’s the Don Cline we knew, that I knew, that I knew well. And there’s the Don Cline I would have never imagined.” - Dr. Robert Colver
88. “Still to this day, there are people in his community that back him.” - Jacoba Ballard
89. “It broke my heart.” - Dr. Robert Colver
90. “He told me, ‘The world does not need to know.’” - Jacoba Ballard
91. “Evil. If Don was right here, I’d say that right to his face.” - Dr. Robert Colver
92. “I quickly got my phone and opened my 23andMe, and all of the siblings on that show were listed as my half-siblings.” - Alison Kramer
93. “You know, you can’t be angry when you have, you have what you always dreamed of.” - Shereen Farber
94. “Well, it was complex for me because I was 47 years old at the time, and to find out that the man I looked up to and emulated from the time I was small was not my biological father, was crushing.” - Alison Kramer
95. “It’s like a bad dream that’s recurring.” - Mark Farber
96. “It’s a very vulnerable position that the patient is in.” - Alison Kramer
97. “I didn’t get to have that knowledge. He knew.” - Alison Kramer
98. “I just can’t believe how it was, you know, done to us.” - Dianna Kiesler
99. “I can’t even think about it without getting upset.” - Alison Kramer
100. “And for him to act like nothing happened. I think that’s the worst part of it.” - Dianna Kiesler
101. “I don’t look at these people and consider them to be my children.” - Dr. Donald Cline
102. “I want zero relationships with him. He’s not my father.” - Julie Harmon
103. “I feel sorry for him because his whole life to his wife, to his own children, to his community, to his church, to his colleagues in the hospital and his office. It’s all a lie.” - Jason Hyatt
104. “I may share half of his DNA, but he’s not my father, and he never will be.” - Julie Harmon
105. “I would like to see him pay for what he did, but I just, I feel like there isn’t gonna be any justice.” - Carrie Foster
106. “I’m okay. This is not my issue. It’s his.” - Liz White
107. “Instead of destroying me, you made me realize my self-worth.” - Jacoba Ballard
Our Father is an important documentary encapsulating the bravery and resiliency of the families who saw Dr. Cline. You can watch Our Father on Netflix!
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