Society & Culture

IS THIS RIGHT??

Society & Culture

Posted by: charming

23rd Sep 2009 11:48pm

After watching the news relating to the USA mother that HAS to give up the baby she is having due to the IVF clinic that made an error an implanted the wrong embryo in the wrong mother. What a dilemna? WHAT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO???? It is a sad & painful time for all the "parents" involved in this debacle.


Comments 12

Rob
  • 28th Sep 2012 03:00pm

I personally feel that the mother has the right to decide whether she wants to keep the baby or not. I don't know what she signed up for but if she wants to keep the child then she should be allowed.

19chris51
  • 14th Jun 2011 11:22pm

My goodness, that would be a hard one, and really hard for everyone involved, I think the IVF clinic IS liable, this has to be a case of MALPRACTICE if ever I have heard of one....I really can not think of how they could work it out,after 9 months, ugh poor lady, and of course the Biological parents, oh gosh what a nightmare

lamyaa
  • 24th May 2011 11:40pm

This thing is really hard to face..... i dont think there's even a soluation...is hard for the women to fall pregnant and go through all the pain and the then all of the sudden someone comes and say this baby is not yours....and what more harder is the other women who the baby will be given to her is she even prepard for that maybe she wanted to carry her baby in her own womb.

Phoenixarizona
  • 18th Mar 2011 06:11pm

She should sue the idiot who told her that!!!!
Number one the law in the U.S and here states that if a woman gives birth to a child that woman is that childs mother.
This is the IVF 's screwup and this woman should not be expected to do anything. If this woman wants to give her child to its biological parents then that's her choice but she doesn't HAVE to do anything.
Both sets of parents should be suing the facility and have their treatments refunded. What a cruel situation to put a woman (who was already having fertility issues) in.
It must be hard for the biological parents no doubt about that, but surely they could understand that this woman has been carrying this child around and preparing for its arrival. This dilemma should be discussed among the birth parents and biological parents and left be.
The IVF certainly has no rights to be making demands of anybody and should be held accountable.

Shay-Dee
  • 22nd Feb 2011 10:22pm

Ummm why should she have to give it up in the first place?
If she is happy to still have the child, should she not be left in peace?
The mistake was made by the clinic not the couple

Hillicent
  • 16th Feb 2011 04:51pm

and what does this tell us about such advanced technology used to 'assist' nature? bound to be a two-edged sword, and human error is inevitable, remember the dutch woman who had a black and a white twin because of a sperm error?

Kiwi chick
  • 8th Feb 2011 09:39pm

If I remember correctly there were 2 couples who had frozen embryos and one was implanted into the wrong couple. It seems to all hinge on the couples involved as to the outcome. I did read about one where an abortion was ordered. It must be a dilemma if the mother is getting on in years and knows she has to go through with a high risk pregnancy with no baby at the end or to abort a viable foetus in order to go carry her own embryo

matt
  • 14th Apr 2010 03:54pm

The IVF clinic should be sued for millions. She was obviously trying and trying to have a baby and when she finally falls pregnant she can't even keep it !! Disaster plus.

stewy57
  • 24th Mar 2010 02:47am

I wonder who the father is, is it someone in her family or an anonymous male. Whatever happens, there are going to be winners and losers.

matt
  • 14th Apr 2010 03:55pm
I wonder who the father is, is it someone in her family or an anonymous male. Whatever happens, there are going to be winners and losers.

I don't think it was her egg or anyone she knows sperm, just the wrong fertilised egg altogther. maybe doesn't even look like her

Geoff
  • 15th Mar 2010 05:02pm

Give her some compensation and get on with life.

flyingdutchmana
  • 11th Mar 2010 03:32pm

In other words the woman is no longer either the rightful owner of her own womb, but it belongs to the IVF clinic. I find that disgusting.

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