The MSNBC story, Wrong Embryo Baby's Parents Laud Guardian brings to mind a line from Tina Fey's film, Baby Mama: "Life is actually messy." Fey plays the character of a thirty seven year old female that was informed that she just has a million-in-one chance of conceiving due to an abnormal uterus. She hires a surrogate who unknowingly is not pregnant with Fey's kid though her personal. When the surrogate discovers the error, she should break the news to Frey who's of course, devastated. Art imitates life.
Carolyn Savage was a forty y.o. female who received in Vitro Fertilization as well as on the third try, successfully conceived a baby. Alas, it was the wrong baby; a nightmare no one should ever encounter. Savage was carrying a baby that belonged to the Morrell family that had frozen embryos at exactly the same infertility clinic.
As tragic as that might seem, all parties involved rose to probably the highest amount of integrity regarding correcting this unfortunate mistake. The clinic informed Savage immediately upon finding the mistake of theirs. As a medical doctor that has witnessed the share of mine of ethically challenged administrators and colleagues in the medical profession, it had taken a huge amount of courage to claim ownership to an error of that magnitude. Savage was offered the choice of terminating the pregnancy or even providing the infant to its biological parent. The Morrells had not planned to have a baby anytime soon but were informed that another female was carrying theirs. What a moral dilemma.
Source: smartmothersguide.com
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