A couple of posts back I wrote (hardly for the first time) about the sorts of problems posed by mistakes made during IVF. The mistakes I’m thinking of typically involve either lost or switched gametes or embryos. I’m inclined to think that mistakes are inevitable, and the problems posed when they occur can be particularly difficult.
Anyway, a while back I wrote about one particular mistakes case involving Carolyn and Sean Savage. The Savages had been undergoing IVF and a clinic mistakenly transferred the wrong embryo into Carolyn’s uterus–and embryo created with genetic material from a different couple, Paul and Shannon Morrell. The error was discovered much earlier than whatever error occurred in the case I wrote about so recently and so a different sort of remedy was possible. Carolyn Savage agreed to function as a surrogate–to carry the pregnancy to term and to give the child to the Morrells. Continue reading