From the moment she learned that she was pregnant, Krystena Murray was happy to capture all the stages of the trip.
Murray said, “I always wanted to be a mother. “When I was young, I had a mission in school and we had to choose a career. Mom said, ‘What do you want to do?’ And I said ‘Mom’. And she said, ‘No, what do you want to do in your life?’ And I saw her and said ‘Mom’.”
Georgia resident Savannah chose a fertilization (IVF) in the test, which is a genital treatment for collecting mature eggs from the ovary and modifying them to sperm in the laboratory. IVF is a game changer of many families, and in recent data, in the United States, about 250,000 patients annually receive IVF cycles.
Krystena Murray is displayed in an interview with ABC’s Juju Chang.
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Murray said, “I was an unmarried woman and spent years to find a perfect person. “And as I get older, I realized that I am more interested in becoming a mother before I get older than I pursue people.”
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The 38 -year -old photographer was a tumor nurse for almost 10 years before he changed his career. To handle the IVF, she worked at 2:30 jobs and almost depleted her life.
Her first IVF embryonic delivery failed, but the second was effective.
Murray imagined what the baby he had looks like.
Her baby arrived in December 2023. In the delivery room, the feeling of happiness was shattered after the baby was born.
“They caught him so that they could actually clean him, measure the weight, and take them before taking their footsteps and everything,” Murray said. “My first thought” he is absolutely beautiful. He is gorgeous. ‘And what happened to the second thought? “
According to Murray, the baby was an African -American. It was immediately clear that something did not go as planned.
Murray said, “My first thought was, ‘Was it an embryo or sperm?’ “My next thought is,” Can you take it if he’s not mine, but another person’s embryo? ‘
Not long after, she had a DNA test, which confirmed that the baby was not biologically.
A month and a half later, Murray told her that Clinic Coastal Vertility Specialists had confirmed the biological parents of a baby living in other states.
Murray said, “I still wanted to have a way to raise him.”
Murray, however, said the baby’s biological parents sued her for custody. She gave up the only son she knew after raising him for the first five months of life.
Murray said, “It was the worst day of my life. “I didn’t have a bond to him. He had a bond to me.”
Murray sued coastal reproductive experts and ruled over $ 75,000 with punitive damages.
Coastal Vertility Specialists said in an ABC news that their practice deeply regretted the pain caused by a rare human error and expanded the apology. “This incident does not reflect our high standards for 15 years, and other patients have not been affected.”
They also informed ABC News that they had implemented additional human witnesses in the laboratory. They also said they introduced a state -of -the -art digital witness system that uses advanced scanning technology to electronically verify patient samples in real time.
Murray’s story may be shocking, but it’s not the first time. DAPHNA and Alexander Cardinal also experienced a similar situation. Five years ago, the Los Angeles couple made his daughter Olivia a sister, but he was happy to struggle for pregnancy. Eventually, they were able to return to IVF and pregnant.
Daphna and Alexander Cardinal filed a lawsuit against Dasan Clinic and ultimately reached a private agreement.
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Daph I had a daughter. Infants were not similar to their sister at first, but the couple did not think much. But Alexander did not shake doubt in his heart. Especially when others seemed to be Asia. Cardinals are white.
The couple asked for a DNA test.
“The image will burn forever in my brain,” Alexander said. “The reading read that it was 99.9% not to be a father. And then she asked me to read the mother’s results and 99.9%. It shattered the earth!”
The clinic informed that their embryos were converted to other couples’ embryos. The couple gave birth to Joey, the biological daughter of Alexander and Daphna. Much more shockingly, the two families lived a few miles away.
They agreed to meet two daughters over three months. The two families have gathered together for the next few weeks. In the end, they made a painful decision. They will change their four -month -old baby.
Daphne said, “It was surreal. “I gave her a bath on the first night she was here, and when I took a bath to her,” Oh, you smelled like a house. “
Cardinals filed a lawsuit against Dasan Clinic and ultimately reached a private agreement.
Lawyer Adam Wolf represents both Murray and Cardinals. He told ABC News that his company represented more than thousands of others in a lawsuit against Dasan Clinic.
Wolf said, “I said,“ I said, “I dropped the eggs or embryos to the ground, mixed the wrong sperm with eggs, or converted it from couples to couples. “They are things that change life.”
Accidents are rare, but unknown families face unimaginable results.
Wolf says that at the core of this problem, more regulations are required to prevent and track mistakes, and better execution when an error occurs.
Wolf said, “This is a mature industry that requires great regulations. “People like Krystena needed it a year ago, and Krystena will need it before this happens.”
American Genesis Association (ASRM) IVF “One of the most regulated procedures in all American medicine.”
Medical providers also say they have an ethical obligation to clinically disclosed. Important error.
ASRM’s affiliated group SART (Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology) authenticates and supervises the IVF clinic. ASRM says on the website “To be a SART member, the clinic must meet the strict standards, including the clinic staff’s credentials, laboratory authentication, and the routine updated practice and ethical guidelines set by ASRM.” These recommendations include protocols for embryonic delivery and genetic tests.
Boston IVF staff provide insights to safe practices.
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However, DOV FOX, which studies the intersection of fertility management and health law, says that this is just “recommended,” and “it is not implemented in a meaningful manner.” DOV FOX is Herzog Research at the University of San Diego, which leads the Health Law Policy and Bioethics Center. He is also the author of “Birth and Fault: How to Regenerate Medicine and Technology Reguses Recruitment and Law” and the Investigation Podcast “Donor 9623”.
In relation to the regulatory state, the FOX said, “The US support reproduction is not a wild west, but there is no action that can be implemented to prevent the situation wrong or when it does not make the right time correct.”
“The federal policy is limited to the FDA requirements tested for systemic diseases such as donors and AIDS, and the 1992 law is limited by the 1992 law that requests the pregnancy fee to the CDC,” he said. Could it have been? ”
If the clinic reports a mistake, there is no mandatory requirement of the federal government, and there is no central database that tracks errors.
However, according to FOX, regulations are risk of rising prices, potential access and innovation.
Krystena Murray and Cardinale families say that there are measures to prevent mistakes from occurring and claim to change.
Alexander and Daphna Cardinal began their non -profit, ‘Hope without harm’. “Now our purpose is that our purpose is to educate all others and probably won’t happen to you, and there’s a more safer step here. “How can I stop next time because there was a mistake and a mistake?”
Murray said. “I wanted people to realize that this could not happen or something that could happen. This is what happens. And how hard it is when they happen.”
