The first thought that occurs with many reading the articles is, ‘what if the children had been born through in vitro fertilization’! Can you imagine the conundrum lawyers could have constructed from the situation, upon learning there is different nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA in the children than the woman who bore those children? And as legal appeals create legal precedent, imagine what the impact would be on criminal cases where DNA identification is used as evidence to convict or exonerate! It boggles the mind. How could a defense attorney or prosecutor ever explain enough basic biology and embryology for all the jurors to understand the possibilities? Without a jury of Embryologists, perhaps the prosecutor would present the biological facts and the defense attorney would then cite the exceptions. ... Or worse, the defense attorney would cite the facts and try to confuse the jury, only to leave the poor prosecutor at a loss to explain why the differences didn’t create reasonable doubt!