Posted on 04/10/2025 12:10:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Monash has confirmed that an embryo from another patient had been mistakenly thawed and transferred to the wrong person, resulting in the birth of a child.
The clinic has launched an investigation and the incident has been referred to regulatory bodies. Mr Knaap said the clinic was confident it was an isolated incident.
Last year, Monash IVF reached a A$56m (£26.8m) settlement in a landmark class action with 700 former patients for destroying embryos after inaccurate genetic testing.
The case found that about 35% of the embryos, which were actually normal and could have resulted in a viable pregnancy, were found to be abnormal by the faulty screening.
IVF - or in vitro fertilisation - involves the removal of eggs from a woman's ovaries, which are then fertilised with sperm in a laboratory. When the fertilised eggs become embryos, they are inserted into the woman's uterus.
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Play stupid games….
Wasn’t there some story a few years ago about two couples who went to a fertility clinic and had a mixup?
One was a black couple who had a white child and a white couple whose child was black?
How did the mom know? Baby pop out the wrong color?
Oopsie!
This is the kind of stuff that only used to happen during drunken holiday weekend bashes and spring breaks to Cancun and Mazatlan .
“That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!”
In Spain, I think, there was a baby with dwarf genes delivered. Turns out the bachelorette party had a midget dancer.
Some women support abortion for this reason.
It has been proven with modern DNA tracing that even going back 50 years, up to 30% of children are NOT the husband’s children...
At least it wasn’t a dingo this time.
The implications of that are troubling.........
Didn't France outlaw paternity tests for this reason? To "maintain civil peace" or somesuch.
Turns out the mother from that old story was so full of it her baby actually transed to dingoism just to get away from her.
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