What happens to people's donated eggs and sperm after they die? | Ellen Trachman
TED Health
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Is It Time for the Law to Change?
A woman in california got a call from her fertility clinic. It had been about nine months since she had gone through a failed embryo transfer. She was met with a room full of doctors, lawyers, mental health professionals that told her there had been a mistake. Her embryo had been transferred to another patient, and her genetic son had been born in new york. A similar thing happened in italy, with the exact opposite result. There, two embryos were transferred to the wrong patient, and a judge determined that the birthparents were the legal parents the children. The genetic parents had no legal rights at all to their own genetic children.
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