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posted by janrinok on Sunday January 01 2017, @03:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the who's-your-daddy? dept.

The University Medical Centre (UMC) in Utrecht, Netherlands is investigating the possibility that an error has led to 26 women's eggs being fertilized by the "wrong" sperm:

A Dutch medical institution has launched an investigation after discovering that up to 26 women's eggs may have been fertilised by the wrong sperm at its IVF laboratory.

A "procedural error" between mid-April 2015 and mid-November 2016 during the in-vitro fertilisation was to blame, the University Medical Centre in Utrecht said. "During fertilisation, sperm cells from one treatment couple may have ended up with the egg cells of 26 other couples," said a statement. "Therefore there's a chance that the egg cells have been fertilised by sperm other than that of the intended father."

Although the chance of that happening was small the possibility "could not be excluded", said the centre.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:09PM (#448279)

    Genes are destiny? Have we gone full on Nazi here on SoylentNews of late?
    Children are not property, even if you "make" them in a clinic. A child does not "belong" to the source of its genes, any more than it "belongs" to the breast that nurses it. And if a couple can reject a child because of an error like this, well, they are not really qualified to be parents at all. What if the result of IVF ends up with a genetic disorder, or a birth defect, for whatever reason? "Not what we ordered, can we send it back?" Or in the near future: "We signed up for a brown-eyed brunette, and this baby has blue eyes and blonde hair! Take it back!" Or even worse, what happens if the child is ordered by a devout religious couple, and when the kid hits puberty it turns out they are gay? Or even even worse, an atheist!!!! No, there is no ethical issue here. Just some alt-right cucks who are sociopaths anyway. A baby is a baby, after it is born.