IVF couple gave birth to wrong children, filed lawsuit

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A U.S. couple is suing a fertility clinic where they allege employees botched a fertilization procedure, leading to the mother giving birth to other people’s children.

The couple -- who are only identified as A.P. and Y.Z. to minimize “embarrassment and humiliation” – promptly gave up custody of the twins after DNA tests confirmed they weren’t related to the couple, the lawsuit states.

Before the alleged mix-up, the couple said they’d spent years trying to get pregnant and spent close to $131,000 on in-vitro fertilization , travel, medication and laboratory fees. The lawsuit alleged the men are responsible for the "unimaginable mishap." According to the lawsuit, the couple doesn’t know what happened to their own embryos and believe they “were never thawed and/or lost or destroyed by defendants”.” when they were told they’d be expecting twin girls. During the pregnancy, they were also told the babies were “formed using both of their genetic material.

Jake Anderson, co-founder of Fertility IQ -- which compiles information on fertilization for parents and doctors -- said cases such as this one call into question the rigourousness of certain IVF facilities.

 

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'Wrong children'? That's not something that you hear every day. It sounds awfully nasty to call them that too.

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