Posted on 06/29/2010 4:02:55 PM PDT by wagglebee
HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) In a disastrous chain of events, a set of wanted embryos quickly became unwanted after an artificially impregnated women was informed by her fertility clinic that they had accidentally implanted the embryos of another woman by the same name.
The womans solution was to take the morning-after pill (which, ironically, pro-abortion forces insist is simply a form of contraception and cannot cause an abortion) and abort the nascent life within her.
The Associated Press reports that the Center for Advanced Reproductive Services at the University of Connecticut Health Center has agreed to pay a $ 3,000 fine over the incident, which took place last April, according to state health records.
Apparently, a lab technician had removed a batch of human embryos from the storage freezer without following proper procedure. She only matched the last name, but forgot to crosscheck with the last four digits of the womans social security number and the medical record number.
The lab technician discovered the error a day later but by then it was too late. The woman had already been implanted with another clients embryos, which had been on ice for approximately four years.
After being told about the error one hour after having the embryos implanted within her, the woman then decided she did not want to carry someone elses baby, and took the morning-after pill.
Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith commented on his blog about the event, saying it illustrates not only how children have come to be treated as a commodity through in vitro fertilization, but also how this process can sometimes snare would-be birth and biological parents in terrible, heart wrenching circumstances.
The center has insisted that the mix-up is the first ever in their 24-year history, calling it important and emotionally difficult for patients and center alike.
Smith, however, pointed out that mix-ups have happened before at IVF clinics although in at least one extraordinary case the birth mother made a painful, but life-affirming choice. Sean and Carolyn Savage of Ohio found out last year that their IVF clinic had transferred the wrong embryos. The Savages, however, refused to abort on account of their pro-life religious beliefs, and arranged to hand over the baby to his biological parents shortly after the birth.
When the mistake was discovered in that case, the birth mother and her husband chose life for someone elses baby, remarked Smith. Which choice reflects unconditional love?
Carolyn Savage told Meredith Vieira of the TODAY Show back in September that the hardest experience would be the delivery of the child, where she would only have a chance to say hello and goodbye.
Of course, we will wonder about this child every day for the rest of our lives, she added. We just want to know hes healthy and happy.
A follow-up with the TODAY Show in May, revealed that the baby Carolyn Savage carried to term was born Logan Morell, now approximately 8 months old. The Savages and the Morells have become friends through the painful experience. However the Savages declined to appear on the TODAY Show, saying that the months following Logans birth have been much more difficult for them to deal with than they expected, but they hope to write about their experiences in a book for 2011.
Could have the anarchy too. No rules make it unsafe to post. ;-)
Was working on genealogy and looking at all the mothers that lost babies and young children. All the tears those women must have shed! Then medicine advanced and we starting saving children. Now the same modern medicine that saved them is used by mothers to kill them. And there are few tears.
That would be something.
But we HAVE read your posts about advocating for intrusive, Big Brother, communistic control of the citizenry through mandatory DNA testing of newborns, and how you think that *simple fondling* of children is no big deal and won't harm the children if the parents and other adults don't make a big deal about it.
You are a troll whose positions are better suited for DU than FR.
You are a pro-abortion libertarian. You happen to share some beliefs with conservatives, but you also share some very destructive beliefs with the left.
You have been all over this thread saying that this isn't really an abortion because, in your opinion, the embryo had not implanted. But the reality is that you don't care one way or another. You have a long history of trying to convert conservatives to your pro-abortion position and this thread is just another example of that.
GS is NOT a libertarian. Libertarians WOULD NOT advocate DNA testing of all newborns just so that we know who everyone is.
I had forgotten about those repulsive beliefs.
I stand corrected, a lefist who doesn’t liek taxes and happens to own guns.
There is a subset of leftists who want the right to carry firearms and don’t want to pay taxes. I’ve seen quite a few on other forums. Other than that, they are leftist all the way [to hell].
I can’t think of ANY leftist I know that likes to pay taxes. Objecting to taxes does not a conservative make.
Likewise,some leftists don’t have a problem withguns if they were brought up with them, but that’s not a moral issue.
Murder is. If you are pro-murder (aka “pro-choice”) you are a dyed-in-the-wool leftist.
This poster IS a troll. I'm surprised they are still here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2540974/posts?page=14#14
The other comment is from a deleted thread.....
They usually don’t personally like to pay taxes but generally don’t mind everyone else paying a bunch.
There have been a couple discussions lately about “fiscal conservatives/social conservatives” and it is disgusting to read some of the comments. Liberaltarians and people who know nothing about the Constitution, it’s meaning, purpose, the fundamental truths that the writers and signers accepted as necessary for human society, and so on.
I don’t even want to call myself a conservative any more; I prefer “constitutionalist” since a lot of conservatives are tinged with liberaltarianism or just plain social leftism. Which is really the same thing.
Unbelievable. And they’re still posting.
If the deleted post is the one I’m thinking of it was probably the most repulsive thing I’ve EVER seen posted on FR.
It may be that as they out themselves, they’ll finally get a zot. I can’t imagine ANYONE posting the trash I’ve seen and still remain.
Then it sounds like your memory is serving you correctly.
Guess what? We no longer have to be subjected to your views!
That really is a relief. He was very liberal in his views. But I think the worst view was that babies and children didn’t need protecting and they should be catalogued. Sick view.
Thank God.
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