Black Twins Born to White Couple

[No Fun]

Didn' that happen in "The Jerk" with Steve Martin?...  "I was born a poor
black boy...."


----- Original Message -----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 1:45 PM
Subject: Black Twins Born to White Couple


> http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=sciencenews&StoryID=1174805
>
> LONDON (Reuters) - An historic legal battle was brewing in Britain as a
> newspaper reported on Monday that a white couple had had black twins as
the
> result of a mistake during fertility treatment.
>
> The couple will be at the center of a court case this autumn to decide who
> should be considered the babies' real parents, in the first reported case
of
> its kind in Britain.
>
> The mix-up involves a black couple also trying for a test-tube baby at the
> same time, The Sun newspaper reported, quoting a source at the authority
> which runs the fertility clinic involved.
>
> No confirmation was available from health officials, who instead swiftly
> circulated a gagging order imposed on them by the High Court.
>
> The injunction also forbade naming the two sets of parents involved or the
> clinic.
>
> Experts say a mistake could have occurred in one of three ways in the IVF
> (In Vitro Fertilization) process, which involves fertilizing an egg with
> sperm before implanting the resulting embryo -- often two or three at a
time
> -- in the woman's womb.
>
> The wrong sperm could have been used to fertilize the right egg, the right
> sperm could have been used to fertilize the wrong egg, or the embryo
> implanted in the woman may have been another couple's altogether.
>
>
>
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