Results: US woman sues after carrying wrong baby in IVF error
Published on 02/23/2025
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgw3e8zj4vo

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A US woman who unknowingly carried and delivered a baby boy who was not biologically hers is launching legal proceedings against an IVF clinic over the mix-up, after being forced to give up custody. Krystena Murray, from the state of Georgia, became pregnant after IVF treatment at the Coastal Fertility clinic in May 2023. But it became clear that the embryo she had been carrying in fact belonged to another couple - after Ms Murray gave birth to a boy who was of a different ethnicity to both her and the sperm donor she had chosen. Despite the error, Ms Murray wanted to keep the child, and raised the baby for several months until the biological parents were granted custody. Ms Murray voluntarily gave up custody after being told by her legal team she stood no chance of winning in family court. The baby now lives with his biological parents in another state under a different name. Do you think it is right for the biological parents to have custody, or the woman who gave birth to him and raised him for 3 months?
The biological parents
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The woman who gave birth to him and raised him
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IVF is a procedure during which a woman's eggs are fertilised by a man's sperm in a laboratory before the embryos are implanted into a woman's uterus. The complaint says to this day Ms Murray does not know whether the clinic, Coastal Fertility Specialists, mistakenly transferred her embryo to a different couple, or what might have happened to it afterwards. Do you agree with her decision to sue the clinic? Yes
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