ReinnieR Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 http://bit.ly/4rxBAV Video: http://bit.ly/LBhbE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Sad, but a bit strange on the couples' part to claim that the possibility of this happening was totally outside their realm of thinking. I would have been worried about that from the start, in their shoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slappo Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 yet one more reason why IVF is not a good thing... the others of course being moral reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Take God out of the process and put fallible humans in charge, and stuff will happen. It will make for lots of law suits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle_eye222001 Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 This was........inevitable. Ironically not only did the clinic mess up the IVF, they mistakenly called the husband when they were trying to call the wife. Couple was smart in how they answered the questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 I suspect this happens all the time, the couples just don't find out unless the kid gets sick and they have to do blood tests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 How can they be "obligated" to turn over the baby to the "DNA parents" when she has the legal right to kill the baby? Isn't it "hers"? Now, maybe they want to do that and are saying that they have to, but do they legally? So complicated.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InHisLove726 Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 This wouldn't happen if people reproduced the way God intended and not use test tubes and petri dishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StColette Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 [quote name='homeschoolmom' date='23 September 2009 - 03:33 PM' timestamp='1253734399' post='1971624'] How can they be "obligated" to turn over the baby to the "DNA parents" when she has the legal right to kill the baby? Isn't it "hers"? Now, maybe they want to do that and are saying that they have to, but do they legally? So complicated.... [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slappo Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 [quote name='InHisLove726' date='23 September 2009 - 12:41 PM' timestamp='1253734907' post='1971628'] This wouldn't happen if people reproduced the way God intended and not use test tubes and petri dishes. [/quote] Reproducing the way God intended is more fun too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 [quote name='homeschoolmom' date='23 September 2009 - 03:33 PM' timestamp='1253734399' post='1971624'] How can they be "obligated" to turn over the baby to the "DNA parents" when she has the legal right to kill the baby? Isn't it "hers"? Now, maybe they want to do that and are saying that they have to, but do they legally? So complicated.... [/quote] AFAIK, and I have not looked into it too deeply, this is still an area that is being explored in the legal world -- embryos as property, that is. For example, if a couple creates embryos but divorces before they can be implanted, who has the right to say what happens to the embryos? Is the ex-husband required to provide support if he does not want implantation but the wife does? This is the same sort of situation ... when the wrong embryo is implanted, who "owns" it, and can you really "own" another human being? Is an embryo property or a human being? If the woman here had not carried to term, but had instead aborted, could the DNA parents have sued her for damages? It is a legal nightmare, frankly, and there are plenty of moral conundrums accompanying each of these scenarios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleflower+JMJ Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Wasn't there a case like this where the couple just aborted the baby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 [quote name='littleflower+JMJ' date='23 September 2009 - 06:43 PM' timestamp='1253745818' post='1971783'] Wasn't there a case like this where the couple just aborted the baby? [/quote] Maybe, or maybe I saw it in a TV drama. I really don't remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Wow, great points. The couple has a legal right to kill the baby now, but doesn't have a legal right to keep the baby after it's born. What if the couple went to teh genetic parents and said, "Look, we either keep the baby or we kill it--it's up to you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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