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There’s a mere 18-month age gap between this proud mom and her baby – and thanks to the wonders of science, the record-breaking infant is technically 27 years old. Molly Everette Gibson was born from an embryo that was frozen in October 1992 – only 18 months after her mother, Tina, now 29, was born in April 1991. “It’s hard to wrap your head around it,” Tina told The Post from her home in Knoxville, Tennessee. “But, as far as we’re concerned, Molly is our little miracle.” According to researchers at the University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library, the girl enters the history books as the longest-frozen embryo known to result in a live birth. Remarkably, Molly’s October 26 arrival broke the previous record held by her sister, Emma Wren, who spent 24 years on ice before her delivery in November 2017. The embryos were frozen together and are full genetic siblings. They were thawed nearly three years apart at the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) before their respective transfers into Tina’s uterus. Since they were donated anonymously, their biological parents remain unknown. “It is very rewarding for me to see an embryo that was frozen years ago result in the birth of a lovely baby,” said NEDC lab director Carol Sommerfelt. “I feel honored to be part of the process.” Tina and her husband, Benjamin, 36, first turned to the NEDC after trying naturally for their own child over the course of five years. Benjamin has cystic fibrosis, which can cause infertility. The pair, married now for 10 years, had previously fostered kids and were considering traditional adoption. But, in early 2017, Tina’s parents told them about the non-profit organization after watching an item about it on the local TV news. “We were like, ‘That sounds crazy. No, thank you, we’re not interested,’ ” recalled Tina of the prospect to conceive with a donor embryo. “Then we kept thinking about it and couldn’t get it out of our minds.” They visited the center (conveniently based in their home city) and were presented with the profiles of around 300 strangers who had donated spare embryos following IVF treatment. “We weren’t picky,” said Tina, who works as an elementary school teacher. “We just wanted a baby.” Nonetheless, they narrowed down the choice to couples who were short in stature — “we’re both small people,” laughed Tina — before considering the donors’ health backgrounds. They finally selected the embryo that later became Emma in March 2017. Tina only discovered on the day of the transfer that it had been frozen for 24 years. “I asked the specialist, Dr. Jeffrey Keenan: ‘What does that mean?’ ” she remembered. “And he replied: ‘Well, it could be a world record.’ “I trusted him.” Emma turned out to be the light of their lives. After a couple of years, the Gibsons wanted to provide her with a brother or sister. It was a no-brainer deciding to transfer the two remaining embryos from the same donors. Dr. Sommerfelt, who once again supervised the delicate thawing process, told The Post: “As long as the embryos are maintained correctly in the liquid nitrogen storage tank at minus 396 degrees, we feel they may be good indefinitely. “With the birth of Molly, we know they can survive at least 27 and a half years and probably longer.” The Gibsons’ second blessing was delivered weighing 6 pounds and 13 ounces after a relatively straightforward labor. It hasn’t fazed them that Molly is considered something of “a big deal” in medical circles. Tina added: “To us, it’s more unbelievable that we have two precious little children that we never thought we could have. “We hold Molly — this itty bitty baby — and we feel blessed.” As for Molly’s big sister, she seems unruffled by the loss of her record as the ultimate “snow baby,” the often-used colloquial term for frozen embryos. “They might have to fight it out when they get older,” quipped Tina. In the meantime, Emma is “obsessed” with the 5-week-old, and constantly wants to pick her up. She was thrilled to receive a special doll when Molly joined the household. The tot named the toy after her sister and, according to Mom “copies everything we do [to the baby] with her doll.” Looking ahead, Ben and Tina are already discussing plans to expand their loving family. Next time, it will likely be done through conventional adoption. They can’t get the girls another biological sibling from the NEDC, after all. “We’ve used up all the ‘genetic’ embryos to get Emma and Molly,” concluded Tina. “For them, we will forever be thankful.” Facts about ‘old’ embryos Dr. Brian Levine, practice director of Manhattan fertility clinic CCRM, told The Post that frozen embryos do not have a known shelf life. Still, it is important to consider that those put on ice in the 1980s and 1990s “have potential for degradation over time” since the “slow freeze” technique used by specialists back then could “create vulnerabilities.” Although he said there is no evidence that the slow-freezing could lead to any “defects or disabilities” in future offspring, “My concern would be fragility in the [in vitro fertilization (IVF)] environment,” said Levine. “Whereas the embryos of the new millennia will likely last and perform far superior to those frozen in the 1990s.” This is due to today’s use of vitrification, also known as flash freezing, and the ability to test embryos on a viability scale. Levine added that many storage facilities contain decades-old embryos because a lot of IVF parents don’t want to dispose of the leftover fruit of their loins. “They feel emotionally attached to these embryos they worked so hard to create,” he said. “Being asked to discard them is emotionally taxing, so it’s easier just to pay a yearly rent [typically between $500 and $1,000] for the storage.”

Over 40 attendees of New Orleans swingers event contract COVID A swingers convention in New Orleans turned into a coronavirus superspreader event after at least 41 attendees tested positive for the virus, according to an organizer. In a blog post, Naughty Events owner Bob Hannaford wrote that November’s five-day Naughty in N’awlins revelry at first seemed like a safe success thanks to a plethora of pandemic precautions. “We went to extraordinary measures for check-in and instituted a touchless process with required temperature checks, social distancing in line, and sanitizing upon check-in,” wrote Hannaford of the Big Easy bash, which kicked off Nov. 10. “We issued wristbands in one color to indicate who had antibodies and therefore was not contagious. We issued a second color to those that showed us a very recent negative COVID-19 test,” he continued. “The wristbands even had each person’s date of their test circled.” Hannaford even recalled going out to dinner with friends to celebrate the climax of the X-rated extravaganza — which turned out to be premature. “The next day the texts started. We had our first positive case,” he wrote. “It was a wife who tested positive on Monday night after our event. Her husband tested negative. Both were tested prior to coming to the event.” Over the following days, dozens of similar e-mails flooded in, accumulating to 41 out of the 300 attendees, wrote Hannaford in the post, which was first reported Tuesday by local outlets including alternative Crescent City weekly Gambit. “Most would consider that a positivity rate of 13%, but there’s more to a positivity rate,” wrote Hannaford. “You see, we have no idea how many people got tested after our event, nor if anyone tested positive and didn’t tell us. There could also be people that are positive, but without symptoms, so they never got tested.” One attendee, described by Hannaford as “a good friend” was hospitalized in serious condition, but has since been released. Most other afflicted attendees of which Hannaford was aware either experienced minor symptoms or were asymptomatic, he wrote. “Would I do it all over again?” mused Hannaford, noting that at the time the event began New Orleans had in place its least restrictive package of restrictions. “If I could go back in time, I would not produce this event again,” he wrote. “I wouldn’t do it again if I knew then, what I know now. It weighs on me and it will continue to weigh on me until everyone is 100% better.” As of Tuesday afternoon, Louisiana accounted for 232,414 of the United States’ 13,580,941 positive coronavirus diagnoses, and 6,420 of its 268,880 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. New Orleans city officials have already scrapped plans for 2021’s Mardi Gras parades with the pandemic still going strong.

Ice-T Had An Ice Cold Response To His Father-In-Law Getting COVID, And It's Causing Controversy On Twitter This is Ice-T. He's a rapper, a Law & Order legend, and — as you surely know if you've ever seen his E! reality show Ice Loves Coco — he's the husband of model Coco Austin. Unfortunately, Coco's father Steve has recently been battling a long and severe case of COVID-19 and spent more than a month in the hospital fighting for his life. Ice-T shared the news in a tweet on Sunday, and he pulled no punches when talking about his father-in-law's careless attitude toward the pandemic before getting sick. "My father-in-law ‘Coco’s dad’ was a serious ‘No Masker,'" Ice-T wrote in his tweet. "COVID hit him. Pneumonia in both lungs... 40 days in ICU close to death... Now he’s on oxygen indefinitely." "Ohhh he’s a believer now..." the rapper concluded, along with a photo of his father-in-law in the ICU, and the hashtag #COVIDisNotAGame. As you can imagine, Ice-T's tweet has caused quite a stir on Twitter. Many are praising Ice for sharing his father-in-law's story — even if his delivery was rather blunt. When several people in the replies said that they had "no sympathy" for his father-in-law, Ice-T responded by saying that he views many "anti-maskers" as victims in their own right — since most of them are following the guidance of a president who routinely lies about the virus. When some COVID deniers showed up in the comments to argue with Ice about mask use, the rapper hit them with this: "I don't really care what you believe... And you probably won't care until YOU can't breathe." And when one Twitter user criticized the rapper for putting his own father-in-law on blast like this, Ice-T was having none of it, saying: "If I'm willing to use a family member that I love... Then it must be serious to me." And Ice had a clear message for anyone else who felt like arguing with him about this subject: In other NEWS: My dog just Farted..

It took me until last night to get around to watching the second episode. I got into it, but don't see how this could be an ongoing show for many seasons.

Nurse placed on leave for bragging on TikTok she doesn’t wear a mask An oncology nurse at Salem Health in Oregon has been placed on administrative leave after posting a video on social media showing disregard for COVID-19 restrictions. In the video, uploaded Friday to TikTok, the nurse, identified by hospital officials as Ashley Grames, says she doesn't wear a mask in public outside of work, continues to travel and allows her children to have playdates. Grames' original post, on her account @loveiskind05, has been taken down, but a "duet" recorded by another user includes the original footage. The video shows the nurse mocking her coworkers' response to her lack of COVID-19 precautions through a lip-dub of Dr. Suess's Grinch from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." (User @loveiskind05's account has been deleted from TikTok.) The video has gone viral, sparking controversy and swift outcry from concerned members of the community. Marion County has had among the highest number of cases in Oregon, and Salem Hospital has been on the Oregon Health Authority's list of workplaces with the highest number of employee-related cases since May. According to the state's latest weekly report, Salem Hospital has had 91 employee-related positive COVID-19 cases. The state includes family members of employees who test positive in these counts, so it's unclear how many of these are actually hospital employees. Salem Hospital has the highest employee-related count of any hospital in the state. The only workplaces with higher numbers are Amazon Troutdale and three state prisons. Salem Health officials addressed the video on Facebook, calling it a "cavalier disregard for the seriousness of the pandemic." They thanked community members who brought the video to their attention. "This one careless statement does not reflect the position of Salem Health or the hardworking and dedicated caregivers who work here," officials said. An investigation is pending while Grames is on leave. Part of the investigation will involve learning what staff and patients the nurse came into contact with, hospital communications officials said in an email to the Statesman Journal. "We will be following the recommendations of our infection control team on next steps." Hospital officials said they want the community to have confidence in their local hospital. "It is disturbing that the careless comments of one person would undermine the passionate and sacrificial work of so many caregivers who show up every day to provide safe and high-quality care for our community," officials said. "Our hope is that the safe, professional care provided every day by the rest of our staff would speak for itself beyond this one individual." Hospital staff has strict masking, social distancing, screening and infectious disease protocols in place, officials added. "These policies are strictly enforced among staff from the moment they leave their cars at work to the moment they start driving home." There are more than 800 comments on Salem Health's post — most scolding the nurse's actions, many calling for her to be fired and her license to be revoked. One comment read: "She is putting her patients at risk- CANCER patients. Unacceptable behavior. Firing her is the only acceptable response. People could lose their lives/their loved ones because of her carelessness. I hope you value your patients enough to rid your environment of those who don’t care for their safety. Some applauded the hospital's response. "I know everyone is upset and wants her fired, but be patient," one individual wrote. "Salem Health is following protocol and going to investigate the matter...as they should. While we want justice quickly and swiftly, we all do have to remember that justice often requires patience. At least she’s not working while the administration completes its investigation." Multiple community members took to the hospital's Facebook to write negative reviews. One person wrote: "Ashley Grames should have her nursing license revoked for bragging about not wearing a mask or practicing social distancing while being an oncology nurse -- exposing some of the most immunocompromised people is absolutely disgusting and embarrassing behavior for a medical professional." "Who would ever go to a Hospital where their nurses don't understand basic public health protocols?" another reviewer wrote. "If your staff doesn't 'believe' in science how can you be a medical facility. Wonder how dirty this place is." How is the hospital reassuring community members that doctors, nurses, and staff are taking the virus seriously and keeping patients safe? Salem Health officials responded to some reviews: "We have seen your comments and are taking action according to our policies. Thank you all for your concern and patience as we investigate."

I didn't know Fabio escorted... or lived in NJ. I don't know which is more surprising. :oops::oops:

Did you know she was cast as Roz on FRASIER but was let go after a few days of filming because she wasn't right for the part? She must have been really bummed when the show became an instant hit ... until the following season when she booked a pilot about six buddies who live in apartments they couldn't possibly afford unless they had trust funds.

DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my husband for 38 years. Our two children are adults now. Our older son has had the same girlfriend for 11 years, but my in-laws still won't accept her because they aren't married, so they don't include her in some family functions. How can I let them know in a nice way that she is family to me? Even my husband doesn't regard her as family. I understand some people are that way, but I was raised by a mother who saw all of our friends and boyfriends and girlfriends as family, even after some were divorced. I feel like skipping these family functions if my children and their girlfriends aren't included. What can I do? -- INCLUSIVE IN OKLAHOMA DEAR INCLUSIVE: Your in-laws have a right to their opinions, and so do you. Listen to your heart. If it's telling you that you would rather spend those times with your children and their girlfriends, go ahead and do it. I am assuming that the son who is involved in the long-term relationship would not be leaving his girlfriend home alone when these gatherings are held, because if that's the case after 11 years, she should dump him. Have your son and his trollop had any bastard children that the family also won't accept? DEAR ABBY: My sisters and I grew up in California. One of my sisters moved to Texas with her husband 29 years ago. Over the years I have had to listen to her put California down. On the occasions when she visits, she never fails to mention how crowded it is, how the air is terrible and how our government is a joke. Recently, she asked to come here for a visit, and I agreed. The next day I got a text from her with an article attached about "Why California Sucks." I am so irritated that I no longer want her to come next month. How do I handle this? -- ANNOYED IN CALIFORNIA DEAR ANNOYED: Are you telling me you have tolerated your sister's jibes about our great state of California all this time without putting a stop to it? That woman has a lot of nerve! If she truly hates it here, why is she willing to come? Although California may have its natural disasters, a large homeless population, unhealthful air quality, scorching heat waves and the promise of even higher taxes to come -- other states are not without their challenges. Yet folks still seem to want to immigrate to California in droves, judging by the traffic. The time has come to draw the line. Tell your sister you don't like her needling, and if she doesn't cut it out, her invitation will be rescinded. Send her a text saying "at least we never elected Ted Cruz."

How could I have forgotten David Caruso? He was nauseating on CSI: MIAMI. BTW, the actor who played Frank (the cop) on that show (Rex Linn) is now dating Reba McIntyre.

That's where I always go when I'm in the mood for SUBWAY. (see pic) Their specialty is footlongs, but they stuff their meat into anything you purchase.

David Charles Prowse was an English bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor in British film and television. Worldwide, he was best known for physically portraying Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy; in 2015, he starred in a documentary concerning that role, entitled I Am Your Father. Died: November 28, 2020

A 2020 space oddity just got a little more odd. A roughly 12-foot tall, shiny monolith that mysteriously appeared in a Utah desert a couple weeks ago has just as inexplicably disappeared. “The BLM did not remove the structure, which is considered private property,” the Bureau of Land Management said in a statement. “The structure has received international and national attention and we received reports that a person or group removed it on the evening of 27 Nov.” The BLM also said it would not investigate the missing monolith because it is private property, which puts it within the jurisdiction of local law enforcement. Some Twitter users wondered if the monolith fell from space, while others celebrated what they thought was a great, but very human prank. The Bureau of Land Management’s initials, BLM, caused some social media users to wonder how the Black Lives Matter movement was somehow tied to the whole thing. (It’s a coincidence.) Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. posted a photo of the shiny object with a caption reading “Monolith?” and a shrugging emoticon. His Twitter feed also promotes the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was rigged. He probably also believes he has acting talent.

How dare you speak about the president that way!!! ? :mad:?

Forgot about that one. My mom used it on occasion, too.

COVID-19 has found its way to an Oregon mink farm, where both staff and animals are getting infected, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA’s National Veterinary Service Laboratory has confirmed the presence of the virus in 10 samples it received from the Oregon Department of Agriculture, and the state veterinarian, Dr. Ryan Scholz, put the farm under quarantine until further notice. “We have been engaged with the Oregon mink industry for some time, providing information on biosecurity to prevent the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 and were ready to respond,” Scholz said. “The farmer did the right thing by self-reporting symptoms very early and he is now cooperating with us and Oregon Health Authority (OHA) in taking care of his animals and staff. “So far, we have no reports of mink mortalities linked to the virus but that could change as the virus progresses.” COVID-19 has been found on farms in three other states, including Utah, where 8,000 minks were lost to the virus, as well as in Michigan and Wisconsin. Outbreaks have also occurred on farms in the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Spain, and Denmark, where the virus forced the slaughter of 17 million mink.

A man was arrested after refusing to wear a face mask on a Delta Air Lines flight that was heading from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, authorities said. Joshua Colby Council, 44, was rushing to board his Delta fight at Salt Lake City International Airport around 10:40 p.m. Wednesday when a gate agent stopped and asked him to put on a face mask, according to a police report obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune. Council refused and continued to board the plane, police said. Once on board, the captain and flight crew also asked Council to wear a mask, but he became hostile and continued to refuse, police said. He also refused to leave his seat when airport security tried to escort him off the plane. Only when all the other passengers got up and walked out did he finally leave the plane, police said. The incident delayed the flight for 45 minutes. Council was booked into Salt Lake County jail on a disorderly conduct charge. He was released Thursday morning. “We apologize to customers for the delay on Flight 1382 on Wednesday as a passenger was removed from the flight for mask non-compliance,” the airlines said in a statement to KSL-TV. “There is nothing more important than the safety of our people and customers.”

He was porn star and didn’t even know it. A New York man who likes anonymous, online-only sex claims scammers hacked his computer and demanded cash after one amorous 2015 episode of internet intercourse — then plastered hot and heavy videos of him on Pornhub, iPornTV and XVideos without his knowledge. The man didn’t find out he was a sexy screen star until August, he claims in an $11 million Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit, which identifies him only by the pseudonym “Victor Voe.” His “private images and videos likely have been accessed by millions of users of these websites” before the victim was able to get them taken down, he said in the litigation filed against his unknown, unnamed tormentors. At the time, the man claims he worked “in a position of trust whereby the revelation of compromising videos and images of a sexual nature would be damaging to his employment and professional status.” The man’s sexy screen habits began five years ago when he went to sites like chatroulette.com and omegle.com for what he described in court papers as a “modern form of ‘safe sex’ — anonymous, consensual and conducted entirely through video chat.” Then one meeting with what he thought was a woman also seeking sex went south. The victim claims he moved their interaction to Skype in a bid to be more private, but the “woman” sent him a link to a website he didn’t know, a link the man now believes infected his computer with a virus and allowed hackers access to his files and personal information, including his home address, job and bank info. At the end of their session, the “woman” told him she’d recorded him, had gotten into his computer, knew who he was and said she’d release the clip if he didn’t pay up, he said in court papers. Virtual sextortion surging as more men stay home during coronavirus lockdowns The man refused and “deleted all information he could think of that may trace back to him,” according to the legal filing. The scammers made good on the threat and even posted the victim’s social media pics on gay porn sites, said the man, who is heterosexual. When he realized what happened, the victim said he spent $5,000 to “wipe” his digital record and increase his cybersecurity.” The sextortion scam, in which con artists threaten victims seeking online sex with public exposure if they don’t pay up, has been on the rise with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the lockdowns and shutdowns which followed.

Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller becomes first woman to play in the Power Five Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller made history on Saturday afternoon by becoming the first woman to appear in a Power Five college football game. Fuller normally serves as a goalkeeper on Vanderbilt’s women’s soccer team, which she led to the Southeastern Conference title last weekend. She was added to the Commodores’ roster after the team’s other kickers were forced into COVID-19 quarantine, rendering them unavailable for Saturday’s matinee at Missouri. The Power Five is comprised of the biggest conferences in college sports: the SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12. Fuller, a senior, made coach Derek Mason’s roster following a successful tryout earlier this week. “She’s got a strong leg,” Mason said. “We'll figure out what that looks like on Saturday.” The moment came at the beginning of the second half when Fuller, wearing a “Play Like A Girl” sticker on the back of her helmet, kicked off. She didn’t have an opportunity in the first half, as the Tigers dominated the visitors and ran out to a 21-0 lead. It was the only action she saw in her team’s eventual 41-0 loss, one that dropped Vanderbilt to 0-8 on the seasons. Nonetheless, Fuller became just the third woman to play at the top level of college football, after fellow kickers Katie Hnida and April Gross. “Honestly, I was just really calm — the SEC [Championship] was more stressful,” Fuller, in a post-game interview with the SEC Network, said afterward. “I just want to tell all the girls out there that you can do anything you set your mind to, like you really can. And if you have that mentality all the way through, you can do big things.” It’s not yet clear if Fuller will remain with Mason’s team when Georgia visits on Dec. 5. Oren Milstein, Mason’s first choice kicker in 2019, opted out of the 2020 campaign because of coronavirus concerns. Its other specialists had to isolate after coming into contact with people who tested positive for COVID-19 and might not be cleared in time for next weekend’s contest. Hnida broke the glass ceiling when she took the field for New Mexico in 2003. Gross followed in 2015 with Kent State. Jacksonville State’s Ashley Martin was the first woman to play NCAA football at any level in 2001. None have suited up in the NFL yet, although United States women’s national team great Carli Lloyd impressed during a workout with the Philadelphia Eagles last year, shortly after she helped the USWNT win its second consecutive World Cup. Like Fuller, Gross and Martin played soccer before switching to the gridiron. Vanderbilt folded its men’s soccer program in 2006. Before Saturday’s game, Hnida and Lloyd both voiced their support for the 6-foot-2 Fuller, a native of Wylie, Texas, who is majoring in Medicine, Health and Society at the Nashville school.

The little guy somehow missed the memo about everyone shopping online this year. A raccoon wandered into a Best Buy in Toronto on Sunday, and appeared to briefly peruse the electronics before being herded into a box and then carried outside by employees. “He just wandered in the front door while no one was paying attention and made his way to the back of the store,” witness Jamie Muir told Blogto.com. “We tried coralling him to the front door,” said Muir, who captured the moment on video. “But he absolutely didn’t want to leave because clearly it was awful outside and it was nice and warm inside.” The soggy critter may have been seeking a break from Sunday’s snowstorm, Muir mused. The raccoon failed to observe proper social distancing during his brief foray through the aisles, before workers were able to toss a box over him. But at least he was masked.

Celebrated doctor secretly fathered dozens of patients’ kids When Wendi Babst sees her face in the mirror, she sometimes feels troubled enough by her distinctive features to consider plastic surgery. The pain started as the result of an on-sale DNA test she decided, on a whim, to take in 2018. That’s when the former cop realized she doesn’t actually look like the caring military man she always thought was her dad — and instead resembles her mother’s unwanted “sperm donor.” Her biological father is Dr. Quincy Fortier, the late fertility specialist and accused child molester who made headlines for impregnating unwitting patients — including Babst’s mother — with his own seed over the course of four decades. Airing her disgust for the Nevada physician in “Baby God,” a documentary about the scandal airing Wednesday on HBO, Babst declares: “I want to change my nose [because] there is this monster who is living within me.” The 54-year-old told The Post she is “contemplating” going under the knife, explaining that her feelings toward Fortier are “complicated.” “I can’t really hate him because I wouldn’t exist without him,” she said. “But I’ve studied nature versus nurture so it’s scary.” For better or worse, Babst, who lives in Portland, Ore., is a member of a society of Fortier half-siblings that seems to grow larger every month. “[sibling] matches tend to come out after Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Black Friday when they do big promos for genealogy kits,” said Babst. The current roster totals 24 men and women from across the US, ranging in age from 30something to septuagenarians. Nearly all were shocked to discover the truth about their paternity after investing in biotechnology services such as those offered by 23andme and Ancestry.com. The mind-blowing information has also unearthed secrets about the sinister machinations of the OB-GYN, once lauded as a miracle worker for his ability to help women conceive. The film also reveals a shocking history in Fortier’s own nuclear family. “Baby God” director Hannah Olson told The Post that Fortier was an “extreme” example of a “widespread phenomenon” in the fertility industry that likely continued into the 1980s. “With or without the patients’ knowledge or consent, doctors would use their own sperm to ‘help’ a woman conceive,” she said. “They couldn’t predict the future and the ease with which people are now able to analyze their DNA.” Some specialists, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s, would combine their own semen with samples from a woman’s husband in a practice known as “sperm-mixing.” The idea, apparently: If the end result was a happy, healthy baby, who would even care? Babst’s mom, Cathy Holm, now 77, was flabbergasted when Wendi revealed Holm’s husband was not her dad. Still, when Wendi was growing up, Holm was struck by her daughter’s lack of resemblance to “her father’s side of the family at all.” As someone who married young rather than go to college, she said she couldn’t understand where Wendi got her intelligence from. “We were average,” she states in the documentary. Holm was 22 in 1966, when she saw the then 54-year-old Fortier at his Women’s Hospital in Pioche, Nev. She trusted he had done what she paid him to do: use a syringe to inseminate her with sperm from her husband. Holm recalls the procedure in the documentary. “[The doctor] was in and out of the exam room two or three times. [i thought] why does he keep going in and out?” she says. As Olson explained, in those days, only fresh sperm was used for the procedure. It wasn’t until the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s that samples began to be screened and frozen. Fortier, who fathered infants into his 70s, practiced his warped technique as early as 1948. That’s when he used his sperm on Dorothy Otis, a newlywed who consulted him about a suspected infection — not in an effort to conceive. She left his office unknowingly pregnant with her son Mike, now 71 and a retired tech writer from Maricopa, Ariz. Mike was investigating his supposed Native American Indian roots when he received the unsettling results of his Ancestry.com test in 2017. Otis told The Post he grieves the loss of “part of his identity.” Moreover, he is outraged for his mom, now 94, who admitted she wasn’t ready to bear a child in her early twenties and had to forgo her education. In a heartbreaking scene in “Baby God,” Dorothy feels the need to tell Mike she didn’t have sex with Fortier, before asking: “Was he trying to see how many people he could [put] on this earth before he died?” For Babst, the answer is a resounding yes. She calls it a reflection of his superiority complex — and the patriarchy in general. “It bothers me to think that these doctors thought they were smarter than their patients,” she said. “It was a case of: ‘Don’t look behind the curtain, little lady, while I make a baby for you.’ My mother wanted a family with the man she loved.” Otis has learned to embrace the notion that Fortier gave him life. “My view of the whole thing changed a little bit when I looked at my grandchild, and the love that my daughter has in her marriage, and I thought: ‘It has to be okay.’” The film takes a darker turn with the introduction of Jonathan Stensland, 55, a builder living in Minnesota. The adopted son of a Lutheran pastor and a nurse, he enjoyed a happy childhood. But at age 17, he decided to track down his birth mother. Her name was Connie Fortier and she was just 18 years his senior. “She called me just before Valentine’s Day in 1992 and came to visit,” Stensland told The Post. “Even at that early stage, I got the sense there was some kind of dark shadow over who my father was.” He found out the “donor” was Fortier, Connie’s adopted dad, through a series of letters in which she explained she had never had intercourse ahead of her pregnancy. “There was some crazy tale about Quincy giving her an examination and getting some swabs mixed up,” recalled Stensland. “He tried to say there was a possibility that it was a virgin birth.” Overcome by curiosity, Stensland went to meet Fortier in Las Vegas. “He had muscles like mine — like Popeye — and it was very clear we shared the same DNA,” he said. “He was whistling and, if I didn’t know better, I probably would have quite liked the guy.” Eight years later, Quincy E. Fortier Jr. filed a lawsuit against his father, then 87. He claimed he had been sexually abused by his namesake between the ages of three and 14 and had also watched his dad abuse his siblings and other kids. In 2002, a jury rejected the son’s claims. The verdict came a year after Fortier settled a lawsuit with a woman named Mary Craddock, who sued him for allegedly covertly inseminating her twice with his sperm, leading to her giving birth to a girl and a boy in the 1970s. Craddock was given a gag order. Interviewed in “Baby God,” Quincy Jr., now 67, labels his dad “crazy” and “a pervert” and says he would not be surprised if there are “hundreds” of half-siblings. He also stands by his former claims of abuse. “[My father] molested everyone. The happiest he ever made me was lying in his coffin dead. That’s when I knew I was safe.” Quincy Jr.’s words are especially painful for Babst, who spent much of her 31-year career in law enforcement protecting vulnerable people from predators. It led her to wonder out loud in “Baby God:” “Do you want to say your father was a monster? And what does that say about you?” In another scene, the mother of five boys points out: “He has propagated himself through me and my family. It’s a chain reaction that I can’t really stop.” Fortier died in 2006, 15 years after being named the 1991 “Nevada Doctor of the Year.” His deferential obituary acknowledged his eight children, 15 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The list did not include Stensland who, together with the other half-siblings, can only take guesses on the motivation and mindset of the man who fathered him. “I did sense that there was a little bit of a pleasure in pulling it off,” he says in the film. “These forbidden fruits shouldn’t even exist. But somehow he is the reason we exist.”